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Widefield fluorescence lifetime imaging of protoporphyrin IX for fluorescence‐guided neurosurgery: An ex vivo feasibility study

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Erkkilä, Mikael T., Bauer, Bianca, Hecker‐Denschlag, Nancy, Madera Medina, Maria J., Leitgeb, Rainer A., Unterhuber, Angelika, Gesperger, Johanna, Roetzer, Thomas +4 more·2019·Journal of Biophotonics

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Achieving a maximal safe extent of resection during brain tumor surgery is the goal for improved patient prognosis. Fluorescence‐guided neurosurgery using 5‐aminolevulinic acid (5‐ALA) induced protoporphyrin IX has thereby become a valuable tool enabling a high frequency of complete resections and a prolonged progression‐free survival in glioblastoma patients. We present a widefield fluorescence lifetime imaging device with 250 mm working distance, working under similar conditions such as surgical microscopes based on a time‐of‐flight dual tap CMOS camera. In contrast to intensity‐based fluorescence imaging, our method is invariant to light scattering and absorption while being sensitive to the molecular composition of the tissue. We evaluate the feasibility of lifetime imaging of protoporphyrin IX using our system to analyze brain tumor phantoms and fresh 5‐ALA‐labeled human tissue samples. The results demonstrate the potential of our lifetime sensing device to go beyond the limitation of current intensity‐based fluorescence‐guided neurosurgery.

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  • Current PpIX visualization with wide-field surgical microscopy is highly sensitive for revealing the tumor core for bulky tumor resection, but not good for tumor visualization at the tumor margin due to low tumor cell density and surgical cavities because of the tissue hindrance to light penetration.

    “As mentioned above, current PpIX visualization with wide-field surgical microscopy is highly sensitive for revealing the tumor core for bulky tumor resection, but not good for tumor visualization at the tumor margin due to low tumor cell density and surgical cavities because of the tissue hindrance to light penetration.”

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Erkkilä, M. T., Bauer, B., Hecker‐Denschlag, N., Madera Medina, M. J., Leitgeb, R. A., Unterhuber, A., Gesperger, J., Roetzer, T., Hauger, C., Drexler, W., Widhalm, G., & Andreana, M.
Affiliations
  • Carl Zeiss (Germany) (DE)
  • Advanced Development Microsurgery, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG Oberkochen Germany
  • Medical University of Vienna (AT)
  • Vienna General Hospital (AT)
  • Institute of Neurology General Hospital and Medical University of Vienna Vienna Austria
Corresponding author
Erkkilä, Mikael T.
Venue
Journal of Biophotonics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2019-02-20
Volume
12
Issue
6
Pages
e201800378-e201800378
ISSN
  • 1864-063X (ISSN-L)
  • 1864-0648
OpenAlex
W2909013976
Cited by
39
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 9
FWCI
3.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Biophotonics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
  • H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (721766)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Keywords
fluorescence lifetime imaging, protoporphyrin IX, 5-aminolevulinic acid, glioblastoma, brain tumor resection, wide-field imaging
MeSH terms
Brain, Feasibility Studies, Humans, Protoporphyrins, Phantoms, Imaging, Neurosurgical Procedures, Surgery, Computer-Assisted, Optical Imaging

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