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The mesoscale nonlinear optical microscope based on the principles of nonlinear optics and computed-algorithms can acquire large-area image within few minutes.

mesoscale nonlinear optical microscope

Kuo-Chuan Wang

Yao-Chen Tseng

The research aims to develop a novel pathological technology, including rapid whole-mount tissue H\&E \& IHC staining protocol and high-resolution nonlinear optical microscopy imaging system, to intraoperatively assess brain tumor grade, types and other biological parameters.

Brain tumors, especially like glioma, the infiltrative growth pattern resulted in an indistinct margin against normal brain tissues. Surgery is currently the most effective method in prolonging patient's survival, the extent of tumor resection is therefore crucial to the overall outcome. Distinguishing the tumor type and grading can help neurosurgeons plan the intraoperative surgical strategies to cure the suffered patients. Feasible solutions to improve the extent of resections including fluorescence-guided surgery and intraoperative MR imaging are relatively indirect to judge the completeness of tumor resection and its margin; considering means like Moh's surgery performed in the dermatological practice, though it is reasonable to look at the resection proportion by pathological interpretation, it is very time consuming. Besides, many kinds of brain tumors can't be classified only by the outcomes of frozen pathology. There are several related studies trying to solve the problem, but the judgment criteria is not sufficient to meet the standard of modern pathological diagnosis. The research aims to acquire images by optical microscopy from both H\&E and IHC stained tissues, and to compare those images with slides obtained by standard pathological workflow in order to achieve accurate and rapid assessment of tumor categories and grading.

Record Voxel Rate Nonlinear Optical Microscope to Unravel Brain Connectome and Signaling

In this research, the investigators will try to create a standard staining protocol to perform rapid whole-mount H\&E and IHC staining on surgical brain tumor specimens, so that the cell morphology (ex: cell shape, cell size, etc) and cell types (ex: astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, T-cells, B-cells, etc) in the images of those tissues can be observed via nonlinear optical microscopy, and the treatment strategy can be set based on subtyping and grading the brain tumors by the pathologists.

Images of brain tumor specimens will be taken by nonlinear optical microscopy and a image database of brain tumors can be created (ex: cell shape, cell size and cell density of different cells in human brain tissues).

By interpreting the images acquired from nonlinear optical microscope of the two staining methods and the images obtained by bright field microscope for pathologists with standard procedures, an attempt is made to distinguish between normal tissue and brain tumor and determine the extent and grade of those brain tumors (depending on tumor characteristics, such as hypercellularity, microvascular proliferation, necrosis, etc).

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Record Voxel Rate Nonlinear Optical Microscope to Unravel Brain Connectome and Signaling	NCT05943262	Brain Tumor Brain Cancer	mesoscale nonli...	20 Years -	National Taiwan University Hospital
Record Voxel Rate Nonlinear Optical Microscope to Unravel Brain Connectome and Signaling	NCT05943262	Brain Tumor Brain Cancer	mesoscale nonli...	20 Years -	National Taiwan University Hospital

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