Hybrid
Gamma Ray /
Optical Camera for
Bedside Lymph **de, Tumor Diag**sis
At the*Leicester and **ttingham universities in England, scientists have miniaturized a
Gamma Camera so that it can be used
Bedside to help spot and diag**se tumors and
Lymph **des. Current
Gamma ray imaging systems take up an entire room*within nuclear medicine departments, which puts limits on how many patients can be scanned and doesn’t allow its use in other environments, such as the operating theater.
Gamma probes, on the other hand, used for
Lymph **de mapping and parathyroid
Tumor removal, don’t have imaging capabilities. They’re essentially Geiger counters used to locate targets injected with a radionuclide.
The new device is a
Hybrid of a tiny
Gamma ray
Camera and an
Optical sensor (we’re guessing near-infrared) that can help visualize the target
Lymph **de, tumor, or even small organ after homing in on the radioactive marker. The team is looking forward to studying other uses for the device, including evaluating lymphatic and lacrimal drainage.
Here’s*Dr John Lees from the University of Leicester’s Department of Physics and Astro**my, talking about the development of the new deivce:
Source:
University of Leicester…
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