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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2009
Anita M. Mahadevan-jansen, Nashville, TN (US);
Matthew D. Keller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mark C. Kelley, Franklin, TN (US);
Anita M. Mahadevan-Jansen, Nashville, TN (US);
Matthew D. Keller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mark C. Kelley, Franklin, TN (US);
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
The present invention in one aspect relates to a method for surgical margin evaluation of tissues during breast conserving therapy at a surgical site of interest. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of acquiring a plurality of spatially offset Raman spectra from the surgical site of interest, identifying tissue signatures from the plurality of spatially offset Raman spectra, and determining surgical margins of the surgical site from the identified tissue signatures.