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Diagnostic imaging: Intraoperative virtual histology

Stimulated Raman spectroscopy combined with machine learning generates histological images for the rapid diagnosis and classification of brain tumours.

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Figure 1: Images from stimulated Raman histology (SRH) and conventional haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) histology for brain-tissue specimens from patients.

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Figueiredo, C., Rutka, J. Diagnostic imaging: Intraoperative virtual histology. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0033 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0033

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