Novel imaging technique brings diagnostic potential into operating room

Thursday, December 20, 2018 - 10:10 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers led by Bioengineering Professor Stephen Boppart has successfully visualized the tumor microenvironment of human breast tissue shortly after it was surgically removed from a patient in the operating room. The researchers achieved this using a new portable optical imaging system developed in Boppart's lab.

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