Editorial: Optical imaging and laser technologies in neuro-oncology

Optical imaging and Laser technologies in Neuro-Oncology Title 14 Use of light in neuro-oncology can be twofold, for either diagnosis or therapeutics. The optical 15 bioimaging technologies, such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton tomography, optical coherence 16 tomography, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence and polarization imaging are the most trending 17 methods currently to guide surgical procedures and intraoperative "optical" biopsy. On the other side, 18 using lasers as the surgical tools in the interstitial thermal therapy and photodynamic therapy can 19 provide targeted destruction of brain tumor cells.