Indocyanine Green Fluorescence-Navigated Sentinel Node Biopsy Showed Higher Sensitivity than the Conventional Radioisotope or Blue Dye Methods: It May Help to Reduce False-Negative Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies in Skin Cancer

Sep 16, 2016 by in GENERAL RADIOLOGY Comments Off on Indocyanine Green Fluorescence-Navigated Sentinel Node Biopsy Showed Higher Sensitivity than the Conventional Radioisotope or Blue Dye Methods: It May Help to Reduce False-Negative Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies in Skin Cancer

Fig. 26.1 Schematic image of sentinel lymph node (SLN) concept. SLN has direct flow from the tumor and the first metastasis via lymph channel should occur from here. If SLN…

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Development of a Non-blurring, Dual-Imaging (X-Ray/Fluorescence) Tissue Marker for Localization of Gastrointestinal Tumors

Sep 16, 2016 by in GENERAL RADIOLOGY Comments Off on Development of a Non-blurring, Dual-Imaging (X-Ray/Fluorescence) Tissue Marker for Localization of Gastrointestinal Tumors

Fig. 23.1 Gross appearance (a), macroscopic NIR fluorescence image (b), and X-ray CT image of the marker Fig. 23.2 Microscopic observation of the marker. (a) Phase contrast microscopy. (b) NIR…

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Identification of Malignant Tumors in the Liver

Sep 16, 2016 by in GENERAL RADIOLOGY Comments Off on Identification of Malignant Tumors in the Liver

Study Number of patients Preoperative diagnosis Imaging system Dose of ICG Injection site Time between injection and imaging Intraoperative IR (tumors) Additional metastases identified False-positive lesions Smallest tumor size Harada,…

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Robotic Surgery Using Firefly System

Sep 16, 2016 by in GENERAL RADIOLOGY Comments Off on Robotic Surgery Using Firefly System

Fig. 6.1 da Vinci® indocyanine green (ICG) near infrared (NIR) fluorescence Imaging Vision System. With permission from Intuitive Surgical, Inc © 2012 There are many fields of application of ICG…

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