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Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Engineering Design of a Hadamard Transform Spectral Imaging System for Brain Tumor Resection Guidance Group 10 Members: Paul Holcomb Tasha Nalywajko Melissa Walden Abstract According to studies completed by the National Institute for Health, brain tumors represent one of the most deadly types of cancers, with an average mortality rate of 71% in diagnosed cases.1 The use of imaging to help locate and resection tumors was shown to increase the median survival rate for patients suffering from glioblastoma multiforme from 19 week