Mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool used for the analysis of a wide range of
substances and matrices; it is increasingly utilized for clinical applications in laboratory …

The early 2000s brought a new age in the field of mass spectrometry (MS) with the
introduction of ambient ionization MS techniques. As defined by one of its early visionaries …

Serum biomarkers are often insufficiently sensitive or specific to facilitate cancer screening
or diagnostic testing. In ovarian cancer, the few established serum biomarkers are highly …

Solid phase microextraction (SPME) is a versatile, nonex-haustive sample preparation tool
that has been demonstrated to be well-suited for facile and effective analysis of a broad …

Early cancer detection greatly increases the chances for successful treatment, but available
diagnostics for some tumours, including lung adenocarcinoma (LA), are limited. An ideal …

Tissue diagnosis is important during surgical excision of solid tumors for margin evaluation.
Conventional histopathologic methods rely heavily on image-based visual diagnosis by …

Background Patients suffering from malignant gliomas have a poor prognosis. For the
surgical treatment of these tumors, 5‐aminolevulinic acid (5‐ALA) has become a new …

Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating data in an integrated sensor network
having one or more nodes coupled to an optical sensor network and a radio frequency …

Surgical resection of tumours requires precisely locating and defining the margins between
lesions and normal tissue. However, this is made difficult by irregular margin borders …

Ambient ionization mass spectrometry (AIMS) has grown into a group of emerging analytical
techniques that allow rapid, real-time, high-throughput, in situ, and in vivo analysis in many …