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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2018 Dec 15;141(3):495–505. doi: 10.1007/s11060-018-03077-9

Table 1.

Summary of key specifications and trade-offs

Technology Free-standing Probe-based system
Wide-field
microscopy
Wide-field
spectroscopy
Fluorecence
tomography
Wide-filed
endoscopy
Fiber-optic
spectroscopy
Point-scanned
confocal
Line-scanned
confocal
Field of view ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆
Spatial resolution ☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆
Imaging depth ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆
Frame rate ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆☆☆
Sensitivity ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆
Direct contact with patients No No No No Yes Yes Yes
Commercially avaliable Yes No No Yes No Yes No
Related clinical studies 11–18, 22 25, 49, 50 33 9, 10, 24 8, 10, 24 23 N/A