TumourVue
Research type
Research Study
Full title
TumourVue: Precise Intraoperative Tumour Localisation - a Proof of Concept Study (TumourVue study)
IRAS ID
262679
Contact name
Stephen J Price
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 1 days
Research summary
WHY?
For patients with brain tumours - the more of their tumour a surgeons can remove, the better the outcome is for patients. The difficulty surgeons face is that tumour can look very similar to normal brain. A surgeon can struggle to know what is tumour and what is normal. If they don't remove enough tumour then they come back sooner. If they take too much they risk injuring normal brain. As tumours are usually more active than the normal brain they produce heat. Using long-wave infrared we can detect this. This study hopes to see if we can use this to detect the tumour margin during surgery.WHO?
We will ask patients who need surgery for a brain tumour to if they will agree to take part in this study. They will undergo their operation and all care as normal.HOW?
For patients who agree to take part in this study, then during their operation we will use a hand-held camera to record the appearance of the surface of the brain at different times during the operation using long-wave infrared and other wavelengths (including normal light and ultraviolet light). The recordings will be anonymised and taken away and processed to find the best way to see differences in temperature. Once we have worked this out, we will take samples of the tumour from different regions to see if what we can detect is tumour or not. We hope to record information from 50 patients undergoing surgery. Apart from these recordings, everything else will be normal care.REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
19/NI/0151
Date of REC Opinion
30 Jul 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion