Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Subject "lumpectomy margins"

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A low-cost, portable, and quantitative spectral imaging system for application to biological tissues

Fu, Henry L.; Yu, Bing; Lo, Justin Y.; Ramanujam, Nimmi (OPTICAL SOC AMER, 2010)

The ability of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy to extract quantitative biological composition of tissues has been used to discern tissue types in both pre-clinical and clinical cancer studies. Typically, diffuse reflectance ...
Performance metrics of an optical spectral imaging system for intra-operative assessment of breast tumor margins

Bydlon, Torre M.; Kennedy, Stephanie A.; Richards, Lisa; Brown, J. Quincy; Yu, Bing; Junker, Marlee; Ramanujam, Nimmi (OPTICAL SOC AMER, 2010)

As many as 20-70% of patients undergoing breast conserving surgery require repeat surgeries due to a close or positive surgical margin diagnosed post-operatively [1]. Currently there are no widely accepted tools for ...