Inventors:
Christoph Hauger - Aalen, DE
Guido Hattendorf - Phoenix AZ, US
Peter Maxwell Delaney - Carnegie, AU
Robert F. Spetzler - Paradise Valley AZ, US
Mark C. Preul - Scottsdale AZ, US
Jennifer Eschbacher - Phoenix AZ, US
Peter Nakaji - Phoenix AZ, US
Assignee:
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC. - Dublin CA
CARL ZEISS SURGICAL GMBH - Oberkochen
International Classification:
A61K 49/00, A61B 6/00
Abstract:
A method of detecting a brain tumor includes administering indocyanine green to a living body; exposing brain tissue in the living body; irradiating the exposed brain tissue with excitation light of indocyanine green; obtaining an image based on fluorescence of the excited indocyanine green in the brain tissue, wherein the image is obtained using an endomicroscope; and identifying portions of the brain tissue corresponding to the brain tumor based on the image.