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An Intraoperative $\beta ^{-}$ Detecting Probe for Radio-Guided Surgery in Tumour Resection
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 63:2533-2539
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016.
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Abstract
- The development of the $\beta^-$ based radio-guided surgery aims to extend the technique to those tumours where surgery is the only possible treatment and the assessment of the resection would most profit from the low background around the lesion, as for brain tumours. Feasibility studies on meningioma, glioma, and neuroendocrine tumors already estimated the potentiality of this new treatment. To validate the technique, prototypes of the intraoperative probe required by the technique to detect $\beta^-$ radiation have been developed. This paper discusses the design details of the device and the tests performed in laboratory. In such tests particular care has to be taken to reproduce the surgical field conditions. The innovative technique to produce specific phantoms and the dedicated testing protocols is described in detail.<br />Comment: 7 pages, 15 figures
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
medicine.medical_specialty
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Beta probe
business.industry
Tumor resection
phantoms
Neuroendocrine tumors
simulation
medicine.disease
Physics - Medical Physics
cancer detection
radio-guided surgery
surgical instruments
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Surgery
Resection
Meningioma
Testing protocols
Glioma
medicine
business
Field conditions
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15581578 and 00189499
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cff2d13c090d40a036547decd5f5bf21
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2016.2600266