Near infrared (NIR) in-vivo fluorescence imaging is a powerful modality capable of interrogating biological tissue in real time, at high spatial resolution, without the need for ionizing radiation, and at depths exceeding visible light imaging modalities.
Several fluorescence guided surgery (FGS) imaging systems have been developed, but their complexity and cost effectively excludes low resource settings from this technology. To help make NIR FGS available globally, we developed a fluorescence imaging augmented reality Raspberry Pi-based goggle system (FAR-Pi), open-source-hardware-inspired low cost, fully wearable, compact, and battery powered redesign of our previously described goggle-based FGS system.
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