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Gamma Ray Imaging Probes for Radioguided Surgery and Site-Directed Biopsy

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Radioguided Surgery

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The imaging probe is a small field-of-view, portable, handheld, high-resolution gamma ray detector that aids the surgeon in finding specific targets either to be removed in the surgical field (such as sentinel lymph nodes or occult tumor lesions) or to be localized for transcutaneous needle biopsies (suspect lesions). High-resolution detectors can be defined as gamma cameras with spatial resolution better than 4 mm, which is the lower limit of the intrinsic resolution of Anger cameras. Radioguided surgery requires rapid and precise detection, as is generally (but not always) provided by simple probes with acoustic signaling, which will be referred to here as simple probes. Imaging probes are useful when intraoperative images help surgeons address small, sometimes deep, structures that have to be removed, and functional imaging also sometimes aids in precise guidance of a biopsy needle for x-ray-detected lesions. High-resolution images provided by imaging probes are useful in these instances, although some are not strictly surgical acts.

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  1. Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Radiological Sciences, Second Medical School, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Scopinaro MD

  2. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Alessandro Soluri PhD

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    Armando E. Giuliano MD (Chief of Science and Medicine) (Chief of Science and Medicine)

  3. Nuclear Medicine Service, Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    H. William Strauss MD

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Scopinaro, F., Soluri, A. (2008). Gamma Ray Imaging Probes for Radioguided Surgery and Site-Directed Biopsy. In: Mariani, G., Giuliano, A.E., Strauss, H.W. (eds) Radioguided Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38327-9_4

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