30.09.2023 | Commentary
Expanding the reach of nuclear medicine by bringing imaging to the patient
verfasst von:
Andrew T. Trout
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 12/2023
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Excerpt
Nuclear Medicine is not an imaging technology that is typically thought of as being portable or applicable to bedside care. Despite this, hand-held gamma probes have been used for many years to locate, with increased confidence, lesions or foci of uptake that may otherwise be anatomically or visually occult [
1,
2]. This localization takes advantage of the physiologic or pathologic accumulation of radiotracer activity which provides information distinct from anatomic imaging and which currently cannot be imaged or identified with other imaging modalities. Gamma probes, however, simply facilitate localization based on identifying concentrations of activity and provide no image for the surgeon or proceduralist. …