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Isotopes and Procedural Imaging

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In today’s evermore advancing healthcare system, surgical interventions trend towards minimally invasive and highly precise procedures. Many of these procedures are assisted by intraoperative imaging tools, which have been rapidly developing and are one of the factors facilitating this advancement. The use of imaging agents in the operating room makes the mapping of vessels and lymph nodes possible, and with it the detection of malignant or otherwise diseased lesions of interest in real time. Radioactive isotopes took the leading role early on as a readout for intraoperative probes, while other imaging modalities such as optical imaging have recently emerged. In this chapter, we will discuss the evolution of radioactive isotopes in intraoperative imaging, its current clinical applications, as well as their potential future in detail.

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    Yachao Zhang MD, Thomas Reiner PhD & Jason S. Lewis PhD

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Zhang, Y., Reiner, T., Lewis, J. (2015). Isotopes and Procedural Imaging. 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_5

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