Surgery remains the primary treatment paradigm for most solid tumors. Intraoperative consultation examinations of surgical biopsies are often required by surgeons from pathologists for immediate important decisions regarding the optimal extent of surgery.

Surgeons particularly want to know whether a lesion is malignant or not, or whether it has been totally removed. The surgeon often modifies their surgical plan based on the intraoperative consultation from pathologist.

If rapid analysis of the resected tumors cannot be undertaken intraoperatively, it is possible that a second operation will be required later, which will be technically more difficult, delay the start of adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy, have additional cost implications and may have an adverse psychological and physical impact to the patient.

There is therefore an unmet need for an advanced  technology offering image-guided surgery, with the capacity to delineate targeted tissues thus assisting the surgeon to visualize the margins of the lesion. QCELL has developed and markets the InSpect surgical camera addressing this demand.

QCELL’s InSpect surgical camera integrates both spectral imaging and illumination in one package. Long working distance zoom lens offers the required flexibility in operating rooms, while polarization optics eliminate glare for clear unobstructed viewing.

The camera offers real-time visualization of the surgical field in several spectral bands and works both intraoperatively and ex-vivo, providing information for the margins of the tumor instantly. It offers real-time image guidance that can facilitate intraoperative assessment of surgical margins and the detection of small positive nodules that are not visible to the unaided human eye.

QCELL’s InSpect surgical camera works with either enhancing the native tissue’s spectral contrast or with Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Imaging (DCEI), which monitors the uptake kinetics of contrast agent with tumor affinity

The InSpect camera comprise an advanced biophotonic imaging system for image-guided interventions, with great potential in cancer surgery.

InSpect Surgical Camera is a video rate spectral imager. Spectral imaging emerges as the successor of color imaging in surgical microscopy. It merges imaging with spectroscopy incorporating and improving all the features of conventional color cameras while adding spectral information, a powerful feature useful for probing invisible tissue microstructure and biochemistry and for providing information for the margins of the tumor instantly.