With the rapid expansion of robot-assisted surgical procedures, the need for robot-compliant image guidance technologies has also increased. Examples hereof are the integrated firefly fluorescence camera, the drop-in ultrasound probe, and the recently introduced DROP-IN gamma probe. Combined with Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen-(PSMA)-11 PET/CT (staging) and Tc-PSMA-I&S SPECT/CT (preoperative imaging), the latter DROP-IN gamma probe technology recently allowed us to perform the first clinical cases of robot-assisted PSMA-guided salvage surgery of lymphatic metastases.
Clinical nuclear medicine. 2019 Jul [Epub]
Fijs W B van Leeuwen, Matthias N van Oosterom, Philippa Meershoek, Pim J van Leeuwen, Christoph Berliner, Henk G van der Poel, Markus Graefen, Tobias Maurer
Department of Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands., Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine., Martini-Clinic, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.