NDLI: Performance evaluation of a 64-pixel positron-sensitive surgical probe in simulated sentinel lymph node surgical environment

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Author	Liu, F. Wiener, R. Saffer, J.R. Mayers, G.M. Kononenko, W. Newcomer, F.M. Van Berg, R. Karp, J.S.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Richard Stockton Coll. of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ, USA (Liu, F.)
Abstract	The prototype 64-pixel positron-sensitive surgical probe has been repackaged in preparation for moving the probe into clinical surgical environment The probe detector front opening is covered with a 25 /spl mu/m thick aluminum foil, which makes the probe a both light-tight and sterilizable system. As previously reported, the probe consists of a dual-layer detector and a multi-anode PMT (Hamamatsu H7546). The first layer consists of an 8/spl times/8 array of thin plastic scintillators, which is 1:1 optically coupled to an 8/spl times/8 array of 2/spl times/2/spl times/10 mm/sup 3/ GSO crystals. Each pixel element is optically isolated using CaCO/sub 3/ sheet reflectors. With this dual-layer design and customized 64 channels of electronics (with FPGA), a valid event is a signal in the plastic layer characterized with an overshoot by the pulse-shaping circuit, in coincidence with an annihilation 511 keV gamma in the GSO layer, selected by an energy threshold on the PMT summed dynode signal. Operating this repackaged probe system outside of the black box, the new measurements show that the 64-pixel probe has a sensitivity of /spl sim/36 cps/pixel per /spl mu/Ci/cc using optimal signal selection criteria, which is 80% higher than the sensitivity of the previous system which did not have a foil covering. The repackaged probe system is also confirmed to have similar spatial resolution and good lesion identification ability as previous system. For example, it is able to identify in 10 seconds a /spl sim/2.8 mm lesion with a contrast of /spl sim/2.6 at the presence of both 511 keV gamma (tumor to background ratio: 7:1) and 140 keV gamma background (tumor to background ratio: 1:16).
Starting Page	3559
Ending Page	3564
File Size	1137490
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780387007
ISSN	10823654
e-ISBN	0780387015
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1466654
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-10-16
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Surgery Probes Lymph nodes Optical arrays Plastics Optical sensors Lesions Neoplasms Prototypes Aluminum
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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