ICT&health September 28, 2024
For surgeons who must remove a tumor during surgery, it is not always easy to be sure that all cancer cells have been removed. Moreover, during surgery, another factor is that it is not desirable – and even vital – to remove too much healthy tissue. To improve the removal of tumor tissue, scientists at the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Institute (M4I) have developed the iKnife, a so-called ‘smart surgical knife’.
The clinical application of this smart surgical knife has already been studied extensively in recent years, in collaboration with UZ Leuven. That study showed that iKnife can recognize tissue from brain tumors, among others, as early as a few seconds, and with more than 98 percent precision, while cutting. For...
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