BME 581/881 Seminar
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A Method for Assessing Margins in Surgical Treatment of Adenocarcinomas
Dr. Vish Subramaniam
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Abstract:
Surgery is the most common method used to treat adenocarcinomas, the most prevalent type of cancer. While the surgeons may be guided by preoperative imaging modalities such as CT and/or PET scans, they can only rely upon palpation (touch) and sight for removal of solid tumors and distant metastases. Consequently, the margins of normal tissue around the tumor must be adequate enough to ensure that all the disease is removed. In this seminar, a perioperative method potentially capable of intraoperative use, is presented. This method relies upon distinguishing between the characteristics of electrical eddy currents induced in the vicinity of adenocarcinomas and those in normal tissue. The implications of this measurement method for inferring properties of the tumor environment are also addressed.