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FDG-PET scanning is increasingly being used for monitoring cancer patients before and after surgery or other therapies. In cases that a hyper-metabolic area is observed in the PET scan, the physician usually requires a biopsy to differentiate between reoccurrence of the tumor and other noncancerous causes of hyper-metabolic foci. The current practice of tumor surgery or biopsy relies mainly on cross-sectional imaging by PET/CT, CT, or MRI. This chapter discusses recent technical advances that allow intraoperative tumor detection that form the basis of modern radio-guided cancer surgery.
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Daghighian, F., Fong, Y. (2015). Detectors for Intraoperative Molecular Imaging: From Probes to Scanners. In: Fong, Y., Giulianotti, P., Lewis, J., Groot Koerkamp, B., Reiner, T. (eds) Imaging and Visualization in The Modern Operating Room. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2326-7_4
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