Figure 1.
Neurosurgical cortical tissue sampling and pathological evaluation
(A) Illustration of tissue dissection for tissue culture experiments.
(B) The example of a neocortical access tissue sample from a neurosurgical operation (left) which is processed and cut into blocks (0.5–1 cm3, right), Scale bar: 1 cm.
(C) Stimulated Raman histology of a representative slice of non-infiltrated neocortical access tissue (top row) vs. a slice of infiltrated (arrow) access tissue (bottom row) from the same sample. Note, that slices from a visibly tumor infiltrated block would not be used for tissue culture experiments. WM: white matter, Boxes and Scale bar: 500 μm.