The aim of brain tumour surgery is to remove the tumour tissue as completely as possible, but to spare areas of the brain that control sensation or movement, for example. With the help of an innovative imaging method, a team from the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Lübeck Campus, is working on distinguishing these functional areas and the tumour tissue even more precisely during the operation. This could further improve treatment outcomes for patients. The joint project “Intraoperative functional optical coherence tomography in neurosurgery combined with optical tumour localisation” combines the expertise of neurosurgery, the Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck gGmbH and the Institute of Biomedical Optics at the University of Lübeck. German Cancer Aid is supporting the project over three years with a total of 581,000 euros as part of the “Surgery of the Future” funding initiative.