Image Guided Surgery

15/02/2021

Sneak preview! We are testing the most recent modified light source of KARL STORZ, a multispectral fluorescence laparoscope for its Cy5 imaging capabilities, the product of an ongoing collaboration on multispectral fluorescence image-guided surgery that goes back as far as 2009!!

15/01/2021

27/11/2020

Another step towards the routine implementation of optical technologies for image-guided surgery! In addition to our latest review about multicolor fluorescent guided surgery (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536012120962333), we now also have a paper published about intraoperative multispectral imaging using the Da Vinci Firefly: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11701-020-01170-8

19/11/2020

The DROP-IN as sensei of all laparoscopic gamma probes. Applying the DROP-IN probe during 25 robot-assisted sentinel node procedures of the prostate (tracer ICG-99mTc-nannocolloid) revealed the superiority of the DROP-IN technology over the traditional laparoscopic gamma probe and even intraoperative fluorescence imaging.
See also the movie on DROP-IN use: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0302283820308514-mmc2.mp4
Link to Eur Urol paper (open access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0302283820308514

11/11/2020

We’re looking forward to this coming Friday, the 13th, when van Leeuwen will give his inauguration speech wherein he will address “The sense and non-sense of translational science” at 16.00 (CET)!

This will be a mainly digital event, which can be followed at:

Oratie The sense and non-sense of translational science Fijs van Leeuwen Datum vrijdag 13 november 2020 Tijd 16:00 - 17:00  uur Locatie Academiegebouw Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ Leiden In verband met coronamaatregelen is deze oratie alleen toegankelijk voor genodigden. U kunt de lezing volgen via een liv...

10/11/2020

Multicolor fluorescence guided surgery! In a review in Molecular Imaging we have summarized the current clinical state-of-the-art, possible future extensions of existing surgical indications and impact that the technology can bring to surgery.

https://buff.ly/2JR7J47

29/09/2020

With COVID-19 still dominating our personal and professional lives, we have made a small video on the importance of washing your hands. We did this using our labs most recent image guided surgery tools.

29/09/2020

We have created a "How it's done" tutorial for multi-color fluorescence guided surgery. Hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKKbWJyYW70

We have created this short movie to illustrate why we think there is so much potential in using multicolor fluorescence imaging during surgery Just so that e...

10/08/2020

Despite the Covid-19 crisis editorial work continues. The second edition of the book "Atlas of Lymphoscintigraphy and Sentinel Node Mapping. A Pictorial Case-Based Approach" has just appeared with Giuliano Mariani, Sergi Vidal-Sicart and Renato Valdés Olmos (in picture) as editors. The book is of interest for everyone willing to approach the evolving clinical scenarios in which lymphoscintigraphy, SPECT/CT and radioguided surgery are employed. More details about the Atlas can be found in the following link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030452957

22/04/2020

Started as a master student, now an essential part of our group and official PhD: Today, Matthias van Oosterom received his doctorate defending his thesis titled "Engineering precision surgery; Design and implementation of surgical guidance technologies" digitally due to the COVID-19 circumstances.
Well done and congratulations!

We also would like to thank C**k van de Velde (Promotor), Fijs van Leeuwen (Promotor), Jos van der Hage (Secretary),
Renato Valdés Olmos, Freek Beekman, Jenny Dankelman, Nassir Navab, Alexander Vahrmeijer and Henk van der Poel

17/02/2020

By using an experimental human infection model for schistosomiasis Meta Roestenberg and her colleagues at the parasitology and infectious diseases department are trying to facilitate the development of vaccines against this parasite. A recent Nature Medicine paper describes the data of a dose-escalation trial in 17 volunteers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0759-x

12/02/2020

Last Friday our colleague Stan Willems received his doctorate after successfully defending his thesis "Supramolecular Catch and Release" which describes the development of techniques to remove pathogenic bacteria from waste water streams. Congratulations Stan!