Cancer Imaging and Intraoperative Image-Guided Surgery
A special issue of Tomography (ISSN 2379-139X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 627
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past few decades, clinical cancer imaging has transformed cancer care by enabling, accurate tumor detection at earlier stages that has enabled more patients to become surgical candidates. Cancer imaging has also improved surgical planning for patients undergoing oncologic surgical procedures. Improving intraoperative imaging technology, computational methods and innovative contrast sources have ushered in the era of image-guided surgery. This has enabled innovations such as live surgical navigation and real-time image guided surgery with applications in oncologic surgery that may improve patient outcomes. This special issue will focus on pertinent research papers, perspectives and reviews informing the readers about innovative modalities for cancer imaging with enable surgical planning and intraoperative image guidance to improve surgical outcomes. We welcome submissions describing intraoperative cancer imaging, development of novel image contrast methods as well as creation of imaging systems designed specifically for surgical guidance. Manuscripts that cover non cancer intraoperative image guided surgical guidance applications are also encouraged. These will include molecular, nuclear, MRI, CT, ultrasound, optical, photoacoustics, spectroscopy and multimodal imaging modalities as well as well applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve cancer imaging or intraoperative surgical guidance. We encourage submissions for technologies that are experimental but show great clinical potential as well as modalities that have been validated in preclinical models or undergoing clinical translation.
Dr. Suman Mondal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cancer imaging
- Intraoperative imaging
- Image-guided surgery
- Real-time surgical guidance
- Contrast-free imaging methods
- Contrast agent development for image guided surgery
- Fast image processing for intraoperative imaging
- Artificial intelligence in cancer imaging
- Machine learning in surgical guidance
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