Fluorescence-guided surgery in the surgical treatment of gliomas: Past, present and future

R Sun, H Cuthbert, C Watts - Cancers, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Gliomas are aggressive central nervous system tumours. The emergence
and recent widespread adoption of 5-aminolevulinic acid and fluorescence guided surgery …

5-Aminolevulinic acid–shedding light on where to focus

NB Dadario, D Khatri, N Reichman, CD Nwagwu… - World Neurosurgery, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Background Surgical management of gliomas is predicated on “safe maximal resection”
across all histopathologic grades because progression-free survival and overall survival are …

Towards machine learning-based quantitative hyperspectral image guidance for brain tumor resection

D Black, D Byrne, A Walke, S Liu, A Di Ieva… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Background Complete resection of malignant gliomas is hampered by the difficulty in
distinguishing tumor cells at the infiltration zone. Fluorescence guidance with 5-ALA assists …

Polarimetric visualization of healthy brain fiber tracts under adverse conditions: ex vivo studies

O Rodríguez-Núñez, P Schucht, E Hewer… - Biomedical optics …, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
We suggest using the wide-field imaging Mueller polarimetry to contrast optically anisotropic
fiber tracts of healthy brain white matter for the detection of brain tumor borders during …

Use of 5-ALA fluorescence–guided surgery versus white-light conventional microsurgery for the resection of newly diagnosed glioblastomas (RESECT study): a …

T Picart, J Pallud, J Berthiller, C Dumot… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Only one phase III prospective randomized study, published in 2006, has
assessed the performance of 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence–guided surgery …

Characterization of autofluorescence and quantitative protoporphyrin IX biomarkers for optical spectroscopy-guided glioma surgery

D Black, S Kaneko, A Walke, S König, W Stummer… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA)-mediated fluorescence does not effectively depict low grade
gliomas (LGG) or the infiltrative tumor portion of high-grade gliomas (HGG). While …

5-Aminolevulinic acid-induced porphyrin contents in various brain tumors: implications regarding imaging device design and their validation

ES Molina, S Kaneko, D Black, W Stummer - Neurosurgery, 2021‏ - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Fluorescence-guided resections using 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA)-
induced tumor porphyrins have been established as an adjunct for malignant glioma surgery …

A wearable fluorescence imaging device for intraoperative identification of human brain tumors

M Mohtasebi, C Huang, M Zhao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malignant glioma (MG) is the most common type of primary malignant brain tumors. Surgical
resection of MG remains the cornerstone of therapy and the extent of resection correlates …

Machine learning-based prediction of glioma margin from 5-ALA induced PpIX fluorescence spectroscopy

P Leclerc, C Ray, L Mahieu-Williame, L Alston… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Gliomas are infiltrative brain tumors with a margin difficult to identify. 5-ALA induced PpIX
fluorescence measurements are a clinical standard, but expert-based classification models …

Discrimination of infiltrative glioma boundary based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

G Teng, Q Wang, H Zhang, W **angli, H Yang… - Spectrochimica acta part …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Glioma is a kind of brain tumor which infiltrates from the primary tumor to surrounding
healthy tissue. Due to the difficulty in determining the tumor infiltrative boundary during …