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- J Exp Clin Med., Vol. 25, No. 3 , pp.93-99, 2000 Evaluation of a Surgical Gamma Probe for Detection of 18F-FDG
- eRADIMAGING Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation and Quality Control: A Review
- Gamma Probes for Sentinel Lymph Node Localization: Quality Criteria, Minimal Requirements and Quality of Commercially Available Systems
- J Nucl Med 2001; 42:352–360 Performance of a Dual, Solid-State Intraoperative Probe System with 18F, 99mTc, and 111In
- J Nucl Med 2003; 44:1443–1458 Preoperative Localization and Radioguided Parathyroid Surgery
Gamma Probe
A gamma probe, a hand-held device for intraoperative use following interstitial injection of a radionuclide, to locate sentinel lymph nodes by their radioactivity. It is used primarily for sentinel lymph node mapping and parathyroid surgery.
The sentinel node experienced high growth during the last 10 years starting with melanoma sentinel node surgical search and breast cancer sentinel node staging; both are currently considered standards of care. New applications are being developed for parathyroid direct detection and intra-operative detection of cancerous tissue using tumor-seeking radiopharmaceuticals. Parathyroid detection is growing fast, while the intraoperative use of gamma probes for direct tumor detection is just emerging.
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