Nuclear-medicine probes: Where we are and where we are going.

ABSTRACT: Nuclear medicine probes turned into the key for the identification and precise location of sentinel lymph nodes and other occult lesions (i.e., tumors) by using the systemic administration of radiotracers. Intraoperative nuclear probes are key in the surgical management of some malignancies as well as in the determination of positive surgical margins, thus reducing the extent and potential surgery morbidity. Depending on their application, nuclear probes are classified into two main categories, namely, counting and imaging. Although counting probes present a simple design, are handheld (to be moved rapidly), and provide only acoustic signals when detecting radiation, imaging probes, also known as cameras, are more hardware-complex and also able to provide images but at the cost of an incre

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Montoro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545507 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature