In Hong Kong, about 30 patients have already benefited from esophagectomy performed with the aid of this new fluorescence imaging and video analysis technique, with highly promising outcomes to date.

The team was led by Professor Hongjie Dai (Sapientia Eminence Professor, Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Biomedical Sciences, Director of the Materials Institute of Life Sciences and Energy (MILES)) and Professor Simon Ying Kit Law (Chairperson and Cheung Kung-Hai Professor in Gastrointestinal Surgery, Chair Professor in Department of Surgery, the School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).