Comparison of a Short Versus Long Stokes Shift Near-Infrared Dye During Intraoperative Molecular Imaging

Abstract
Intraoperative molecular imaging (IMI) utilizes optical dyes that accumulate within tumors to assist with detection during a cancer operation. IMI can detect disease not visualized preoperatively, as well as positive margins. However, these dyes are limited by autofluorescence, signal reflection, and photon-scatter. We hypothesize that a novel dye with a wide separation between excitation and emission spectra, SS180, would help overcome these obstacles.
Funding Information
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH (TL1TR001880)
  • National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Partnership (R01 CA193556)
  • National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Partnership (R01 CA193556)