Feasibility of Intraoperative Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy in Brain Tumors

Inclusion Criteria

• •Neurosurgical patient population in the City of Hope brain and spinal tumor neurosurgical programs that have been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
• •Only lucid patients qualified to consent to neurosurgical procedure will be approached for participation in this study.
• •We do intend to enroll subjects with potentially terminal brain tumors. Due to the potential benefit of intraoperative mapping, we are not planning to exclude these subjects.
• •Patients with any type of brain tumor will be eligible for participation.
• •All subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent.