A hand-held beta imaging probe for FDG

Objectives Advances in radiopharmaceuticals and clinical understanding have escalated the use of intraoperative gamma probes in surgery. However, most probes on the market are non-imaging gamma probes that suffer from the lack of ancillary information of the surveyed tissue area. We have developed a novel, hand-held digital Imaging Beta Probe™ (IBP™) to be used in surgery in conjunction with beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals such as 18FDG, 131I and 32P for real-time imaging of a surveyed area with higher spatial resolution and sensitivity and greater convenience than existing instruments.