Tomography and Structured Light Imaging for the Evaluation of Breast Tumor Specimen
This study investigates the sensitivity and feasibility of tomography and structured light imaging for the evaluation of breast tumor specimen. Structured light imaging is a system designed to examine tissue removed during breast cancer surgery to see whether the tissue’s edges contain cancer. The current standard of practice is to remove the breast tumor tissue and send the tissue to the lab for analysis following surgery to check for cancer cells. If the edges do contain cancer, the patient must have a second surgery to remove more tissue until the tissue edges are free of cancer. Structured light imaging system may detect the cancer cells in the tissue’s edges by imaging at the time of surgery, and may be used to improve entire cancer removal during surgery, and reduce the need to perform a second surgery to remove additional breast tissue.