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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2025

Delineation of gastrointestinal tumors biopsies using a fluorescence lifetime imaging optical fiber probe.

D Suraci, E Baria, L Tirloni, J L Lagarto, S Buccianti, C Agostini, S Pillozzi, L Antonuzzo, A Taddei, R Cicchi

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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10 authors.

D SuraciEuropean Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4140-5413
E BariaDepartment of Physics, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9679-7736
L TirloniHepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6060-2172
J L LagartoBiophotonics Platform, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9396-8923
S BucciantiHepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
C AgostiniHepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
S PillozziDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences 'Mario Serio', University of Florence, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8861-8718
L AntonuzzoClinical Oncology Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3349-5604
A TaddeiClinical Oncology Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2963-4085
R CicchiEuropean Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2583-6694

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autofluorescence spectroscopy has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool to report label-free contrast between normal and diseased tissues, both in vivo and ex-vivo. We report the application of an instrument employing an optical fiber probe and capable of performing real-time autofluorescence lifetime imaging at a macroscopic scale, under bright background conditions. We validate and demonstrate the practicality of this technology to discriminate healthy against neoplastic tissue in freshly excised tumor biopsies. The capability of delineating tumor margins through processing the fluorescence decays in the phasors domain was demonstrated on four different types of cancer, highlighting the broad range of potential clinical applications for the proposed approach. The presented results suggest that our autofluorescence lifetime imaging probe, together with phasor analysis, can offer a real-time tool to observe lifetime contrast on tissues and, thus, is a suitable candidate for improving in situ tissue diagnostics during surgery.

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Gastrointestinal NeoplasmsOptical FibersOptical ImagingBiopsyHumansTime Factorsaugmented realityautofluorescencefiber opticsFLIMfluorescence lifetime imagingfluorescence spectroscopyreal‐time imagingsurgical guidanceTCSPCtissue interrogation

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PMID39014559
PMCPMC12702634

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