All Outputs (9)

Diagnostic accuracy of autofluorescence-Raman microspectroscopy for surgical margin assessment during Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma (2024)
Journal Article
Boitor, R. A., Varma, S., Sharma, A., Odedra, S., Elsheikh, S., Eldib, K., Patel, A., Koloydenko, A., Gran, S., De Winne, K., Koljenovic, S., Williams, H. C., & Notingher, I. (2024). Diagnostic accuracy of autofluorescence-Raman microspectroscopy for surgical margin assessment during Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma. British Journal of Dermatology, 191(3), 428-436. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjd/ljae196

Background

Autofluorescence (AF)–Raman microspectroscopy is a technology that can detect residual basal cell carcinoma (BCC) on the resection margin of fresh, surgically excised tissue specimens. The technology does not require tissue fixation, st... Read More about Diagnostic accuracy of autofluorescence-Raman microspectroscopy for surgical margin assessment during Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma.

Ex vivo assessment of basal cell carcinoma surgical margins in Mohs surgery by autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy: A pilot study (2023)
Journal Article
Boitor, R., Varma, S., Sharma, A., Elsheikh, S., Kulkarni, K., Eldib, K., …Notingher, I. (2024). Ex vivo assessment of basal cell carcinoma surgical margins in Mohs surgery by autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy: A pilot study. JEADV Clinical Practice, 3(2), 498-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/jvc2.336

Background: Autofluorescence (AF)‐Raman spectroscopy is a technology that can detect tumour tissue in surgically excised skin specimens. The technique does not require tissue fixation, staining, labelling or sectioning, and provides quantitative diag... Read More about Ex vivo assessment of basal cell carcinoma surgical margins in Mohs surgery by autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy: A pilot study.

Real-time ex-vivo assessment of basal cell carcinoma surgical margins in Mohs surgery by autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy: a pilot study (2023)
Journal Article
Boitor, R., Varma, V., Sharma, A., Elsheikh, S., Kulkarni, K., Eldib, K., …Notingher, I. (in press). Real-time ex-vivo assessment of basal cell carcinoma surgical margins in Mohs surgery by autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy: a pilot study. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology,

Background
Autofluorescence (AF)-Raman spectroscopy is a technology that can detect tumour tissue in surgically excised skin specimens. The technique does not require tissue fixation, staining, labelling or sectioning, and provides quantitative diag... Read More about Real-time ex-vivo assessment of basal cell carcinoma surgical margins in Mohs surgery by autofluorescence-Raman spectroscopy: a pilot study.

Autofluorescence-Raman Spectroscopy for Ex Vivo Mapping Colorectal Liver Metastases and Liver Tissue (2023)
Journal Article
Corden, C., Boitor, R., Dusanjh, P. K., Harwood, A., Mukherjee, A., Gomez, D., & Notingher, I. (2023). Autofluorescence-Raman Spectroscopy for Ex Vivo Mapping Colorectal Liver Metastases and Liver Tissue. Journal of Surgical Research, 288, 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2023.02.014

Introduction: Identifying colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) during liver resection could assist in achieving clear surgical margins, which is an important prognostic variable for both disease-free and overall survival. The aim of this study was to i... Read More about Autofluorescence-Raman Spectroscopy for Ex Vivo Mapping Colorectal Liver Metastases and Liver Tissue.

Time-gated Raman spectroscopy for biomedical application under ambient or strong background light conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Corden, C., Boitor, R., & Notingher, I. (2021). Time-gated Raman spectroscopy for biomedical application under ambient or strong background light conditions. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54(50), Article 504003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac276e

Many biomedical applications require measurements of Raman spectra of tissue under ambient lighting conditions. However, the background light often swamps the weaker Raman signal. The use of time-gated (TG) Raman spectroscopy based on a single photon... Read More about Time-gated Raman spectroscopy for biomedical application under ambient or strong background light conditions.

Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma (2021)
Journal Article
Boitor, R., de Wolf, C., Weesie, F., Shipp, D. W., Varma, S., Veitch, D., …Notingher, I. (2021). Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(4), 2015-2026. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.417896

We present the first clinical integration of a prototype device based on integrated auto-fluorescence imaging and Raman spectroscopy (Fast Raman device) for intra-operative assessment of surgical margins during Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell... Read More about Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma.

Combined total internal reflection AF spectral-imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast assessment of surgical margins during breast cancer surgery (2021)
Journal Article
Lizio, M. G., Liao, Z., Shipp, D. W., Boitor, R., Mihai, R., Sharp, J. S., …Notingher, I. (2021). Combined total internal reflection AF spectral-imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast assessment of surgical margins during breast cancer surgery. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(2), 940-954. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.411648

The standard treatment for breast cancer is surgical removal mainly through breast conserving surgey (BCS). We developed a new technique based on auto-fluorescence (AF) spectral imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast intraoperative assessment of exc... Read More about Combined total internal reflection AF spectral-imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast assessment of surgical margins during breast cancer surgery.

Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery (2017)
Journal Article
Boitor, R., Kong, K., Shipp, D., Varma, S., Koloydenko, A., Kusum, K., …Ioan, N. (in press). Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery. Biomedical Optics Express, 8(12), https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.8.005749

Multimodal spectral histopathology (MSH), an optical technique combining tissue auto-fluorescence (AF) imaging and Raman micro-spectroscopy (RMS), was previously proposed for detection of residual basal cell carcinoma (BCC) at the surface of surgical... Read More about Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery.

Towards quantitative molecular mapping of cells by Raman microscopy: using AFM for decoupling molecular concentration and cell topography (2015)
Journal Article
Boitor, R., Sinjab, F., Strohbuecker, S., Sottile, V., & Notingher, I. (2016). Towards quantitative molecular mapping of cells by Raman microscopy: using AFM for decoupling molecular concentration and cell topography. Faraday Discussions, 187, https://doi.org/10.1039/C5FD00172B

Raman micro-spectroscopy (RMS) is a non-invasive technique for imaging live cells in-vitro. However, obtaining quantitative molecular information from the Raman spectra is difficult because the intensity of a Raman band is proportional to the number... Read More about Towards quantitative molecular mapping of cells by Raman microscopy: using AFM for decoupling molecular concentration and cell topography.