Realtime assessment of vascular occlusion and reperfusion in animal models of intraoperative imaging – a pilot study

Abstract

Intraoperative monitoring of blood flow (BF) remains vital to guiding surgical decisions. Here, we report the use of SurgeON™ Blood Flow Monitor (BFM), a prototype system that attaches to surgical microscopes and implements laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) to noninvasively obtain and present vascular BF information in real-time within the microscope’s eyepiece.

Keywords

• blood flow imaging
• real-time feedback
• surgical technology
• noninvasive monitoring
• augmented reality visualization