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Performance of beta- and high-energy gamma probes for the detection of cancer tissue in experimental surgical resection beds.

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OBJECTIVE:While high-energy gamma and beta probes have gained considerable attention due to their ability to detect cancerous lesions using (18)F-FDG in humans intraoperatively, it is unknown whether the sensitivity of such probes would allow the detection of remaining tumor tissue in the resection bed after removal of macroscopically evident disease. METHODS:9L tumors (13 primaries, 17 lymph node metastases) were generated at the upper thigh of Fisher 344 rats. After approximately 2 weeks, microPET was performed to verify increased (18)F-FDG tumor uptake. Tumors were surgically exposed and probe readings of tumor and background tissues were performed in triplicate. To evaluate the ability to detect tiny tumor lesions, 12 tumor fragments (range 0.001-0.032 g) were placed into the resection bed and measured to obtain a tumor-to-muscle ratio (TMR). Lesions were classified as positive if count rates were above 2.5 SD of muscle background. All tumor and muscle tissues were weighed and counted to obtain the "true" tumor-to-muscle background ratio (TMR(counter)) for reference. The presence or absence of tumor tissue was verified by histology. RESULTS:In the presence of background gamma radiation, the beta probe detected all tumor lesions with TMR greater than 2.5 SD of muscle background (TMR range 1.24-3.9 for all 41 lesions). Despite suitable shielding, lesion identification by the gamma probe was clearly limited by the presence of background radioactivity. As a result, only 11/13 primary tumors, 6/17 lymph nodes and 1/11 tumor fragments were identified above 2.5 SD of muscle background (TMR range 0.64-3.59 for all lesions). CONCLUSION:Under experimental conditions, the beta probe was capable to detect minute amounts of tumor tissue at the surface of resection beds. While clinical application of the current beta probe design may depend on the particular intraoperative circumstances including time requirements for surface scanning of resection beds, the data indicate clinical potential for novel designs of hand-held beta probes.

journal_name

Ann Nucl Med

journal_title

Annals of nuclear medicine

authors

Garcia-Parra R,Clinthorne N,Wang L,Picchio M,Piert M

doi

10.1007/s12149-011-0492-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-08-01 00:00:00

pages

486-93

issue

eissn

0914-7187

issn

1864-6433

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Performance of beta- and high-energy gamma probes for the detection of cancer tissue in experimental surgical resection beds.