Utilization of Indocynanine Green Fluorescent Imaging (ICG-FI) for the Assessment of Microperfusion in Vascular Medicine

Overview

Journal Innov Surg Sci

Publisher De Gruyter

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2019 Oct 4

PMID 31579783

Citations 11

Authors

Anna Dupree

Henrik Riess

Christian Detter

Eike S Debus

Sabine H Wipper

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Abstract

Intraoperative valuation of organ and tissue microperfusion is always a current topic in different surgical situations. Although indocyanine green fluorescent imaging (ICG-FI) has turned to be a more and more common technique to evaluate organ perfusion, only few studies tried to quantitatively validate the technique for microperfusion assessment. The aim of the following manuscript is to present the results of our interdisciplinary research confirming additional quantitative assessment tools in different surgical conditions. Thus, we are implementing the background-subtracted peak fluorescent intensity (BSFI), the slope of fluorescence intensity (SFI), and the time to slope (TTS) using ICG-FI in several regions of interest (ROI).

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