Bedside nuclear medicine investigations in the intensive care unit

Ac, Perkins; Yeoman, P; Aj, Hindle; Rm, Vincent; Frier, M; Rj, Winter; Ml, Wastie

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“…Intraoperative imaging is used widely in medicine and the specific use of gamma camera imaging has the potential to further improve surgical outcomes Over the last 10 years a number of applications have been developed based on gamma probe technologies. These applications include tumour and lymph node detection, infection imaging and orthopaedic care [18,19]. The concept of sentinel node biopsy has been applied to assist in the identification of patients for complete lymph node dissection [20,21] has become an important technique for staging cancer and, in particular, determining whether the disease has spread from the primary tumour to the lymphatic system.…”

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A Hybrid Camera for simultaneous imaging of gamma and optical photons

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We present a new concept for a medical imaging system, the Hybrid Mini Gamma Camera (HMGC). This combines an optical and a gamma-ray camera in a co-aligned configuration that offers high spatial resolution multi-modality imaging for superimposition of a scintigraphic image on an optical image. This configuration provides visual identification of the sites of localisation of radioactivity that would be especially suited to medical imaging. An extension of the new concept using two hybrid cameras (The StereoScope) offers the potential for stereoscopic imaging with depth estimation for a gamma emitting source.

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A Hybrid Camera for simultaneous imaging of gamma and optical photons

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“…Despite the emphasis on hybrid imaging there has been a continued interest at the other end of the equipment spectrum, the use of small highly collimated probe systems for intraoperative and intensive care applications [2,3]. These have been used for a wide range of applications with particular emphasis on identifying the uptake of radiopharmaceuticals in tumours during surgical operations.…”

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A high resolution Small Field Of View (SFOV) gamma camera: a columnar scintillator coated CCD imager for medical applications

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We describe a high resolution, small field of view (SFOV), Charge Coupled Device (CCD) based camera for imaging small volumes of radionuclide uptake in tissues. The Mini Gamma Ray Camera (MGRC) is a collimated, scintillator-coated, low cost, high performance imager using low noise CCDs. The prototype MGRC has a 600 µm thick layer of columnar CsI(Tl) and operates in photon counting mode using a thermoelectric cooler to achieve an operating temperature of -10 ˚C. Collimation was performed using a pin hole collimator. We have measured the spatial resolution, energy resolution and efficiency using a number of radioisotope sources including 140 keV gamma-rays from 99m Tc in a specially designed phantom. We also describe our first imaging of a volunteer patient.

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“…Over a period of 10 years I personally travelled from Southampton to Aberdeen assisting surgeons localize a variety of lesions [ 7 , 8 ]. Similar techniques were developed for the use of probes in the intensive care unit [ 9 ].…”

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Nuclear Medicine in Nottingham: Antibodies, Gamma Probes and Drug Delivery

Perkins

2016

A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK

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Bedside nuclear medicine investigations in the intensive care unit

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A Hybrid Camera for simultaneous imaging of gamma and optical photons

A Hybrid Camera for simultaneous imaging of gamma and optical photons

A high resolution Small Field Of View (SFOV) gamma camera: a columnar scintillator coated CCD imager for medical applications

Nuclear Medicine in Nottingham: Antibodies, Gamma Probes and Drug Delivery

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