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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Laser Imaging & How It Plays Into Tumor Awareness

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By Robbie Sutter


Anyone who is even remotely familiar with tumor awareness may be able to tell you all about how intricate the operation process can be. Surgery is done in order to remove such growths from the brain but the truth is that success is varied. Sometimes people will go through it successfully while there are others who may go into remission. That being said, how can this level of awareness help a new way of laser imaging? After reading one report, it's easy to see the potential.

According to a written piece on physicsworld.com, it appears as though a new imaging technique will come into effect in order to tell different parts of tissue in the brain apart. A brain with a tumor will have both a healthy type as well as a cancerous type. Being able to take a picture of this organ will be able to show which parts are which, meaning that surgical methods could potentially have better rates of success. When it comes to surgery, results are everything, especially on a wider basis.

Prior to this method put into effect, surgery was the only way for there to be any form of knowledge to be had on types of issue. Before surgery would be done, magnetic-resonance imaging could be utilized so that a visual of the brain would be attained. The written piece said that the best ways to tell cancerous areas of the brain from healthy ones would be through different textures and colors. That being said, it seems that such differences are almost impossible for surgeons to effectively pick up on.

With this imaging system set in place, though, results are seemingly greater for the sake of tumor awareness than they have ever been before. With laser imaging, the brain is pictured with the blue tissue being cancerous and the green tissue being healthy. As you can probably imagine, this is better for surgeons who have to be able to plan out the surgery beforehand. There are so many details and this method may help to make procedures stronger, a focus of organizations like Voices against Brain Cancer.

Laser imaging, in this regard, is very important and it is hard for me to say otherwise. I think that researchers, thanks to this method, are much better off because now they have a method that can tell healthy and cancerous tissue apart much more effectively. This plays into surgery done later on, which can have greater rates of success now that there's better awareness put into place. Hopefully more work is done, though, so that this strong method can be made even more robust.




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