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PHILADELPHIA -- November 18, 2009 -- Intraoperative optical coherence tomography (OCT) rapidly images larger breast tumour margin areas, dramatically improving the microscopic sampling rate or analysis of the margin, according to research published in the November 15 issue of Cancer Research. "Intraoperative OCT has the potential to provide diagnostically useful information about margin status in real time, at the point of care, rather than relying on postoperative histopathology," said Stephen Boppart, MD, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, Illinois. Dr. Boppart and colleagues demonstrated the feasibility of using this technology for evaluating surgical margins during ... (Read Full Article)

HOLLYWOOD, Fla -- January 25, 2009 -- The combination of a cobalt-chromium stent and a stent-cloaking chemical compound coating (Polyzene-F) continues to generate encouraging results in a "first-in-man" study taking place in Italy, researchers noted at the 21st International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET)....After 12 months, stents in 15 randomly chosen patients were analysed using optical coherence tomography. In that analysis, only 29 of the 19,028 struts were malapposed. Binary angiographic restenosis was recorded in 6.8% of these patients. (Read Full Article)