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Friday 16 Oct 2015 - 16:55 Makkah mean time-3-1-1437
 Michigan, (IINA) - Researchers at the University of Michigan are developing a laser imaging technology by using a stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), which is a microscope that could help doctors better see cancerous tumors during surgery, UPI reported.
One of the main reasons for this research is that doctors find it hard to recognize where a tumor ends and normal brain tissue begins during the surgery itself.
The technology in its current form takes up to 30 minutes to prepare a tissue sample, researchers are aiming at developing it in order to make a medical team able to determine the next steps in a far shorter period.
"It allows the surgical decision-making process to become data driven instead of relying on the surgeon's best guess", said Dr. Daniel Orringer, a neurosurgeon in the pathology department at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Researchers said that the SRS technology uses colors to differentiate between brain cortex, tumor and white matter, which allow us to distinguish with near-perfect accuracy the difference between tumor and non-tumor cells in the brain.
"This technology has the potential to resolve a long-standing issue in cancer surgery, which is the need for faster and more effective methods to assess whether a tumor has been fully removed", said Dr. Richard Conroy, director of the Division of Applied Science and Technology at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
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