TY - JOUR
T1 - Sentinel node imaging of laryngeal cancer using a portable gamma camera with CdTe semiconductor detectors
AU - Tanaka, Chikako
AU - Fujii, Hirofumi
AU - Shiotani, Akihiro
AU - Kitagawa, Yuko
AU - Nakamura, Kayoko
AU - Kubo, Atsushi
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - A 59-year-old man with laryngeal cancer was scheduled to receive sentinel lymph node (SLN) navigation surgery. Radioactive colloids were endoscopically injected around the tumor. Three hours after injection, preoperative lymphoscintigraphy was performed using a new portable CdTe semiconductor camera as well as a conventional gamma camera. The semiconductor camera successfully identified an SLN neighboring the primary tumor over an acquisition time of only 30 seconds, whereas the conventional camera could not clearly visualize the SLN over the same acquisition time. This semiconductor camera also imaged the SLN in the operating room, 19 hours after the injection.
AB - A 59-year-old man with laryngeal cancer was scheduled to receive sentinel lymph node (SLN) navigation surgery. Radioactive colloids were endoscopically injected around the tumor. Three hours after injection, preoperative lymphoscintigraphy was performed using a new portable CdTe semiconductor camera as well as a conventional gamma camera. The semiconductor camera successfully identified an SLN neighboring the primary tumor over an acquisition time of only 30 seconds, whereas the conventional camera could not clearly visualize the SLN over the same acquisition time. This semiconductor camera also imaged the SLN in the operating room, 19 hours after the injection.
KW - Intraoperative imaging
KW - Laryngeal cancer
KW - Semiconductor detectors
KW - Sentinel node
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U2 - 10.1097/01.rlu.0000163371.46584.db
DO - 10.1097/01.rlu.0000163371.46584.db
M3 - Article
C2 - 15891306
AN - SCOPUS:19544377841
SN - 0363-9762
VL - 30
SP - 440
EP - 443
JO - Clinical nuclear medicine
JF - Clinical nuclear medicine
IS - 6
ER -
