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Table 2 The percentage of radioactivity in excised lymph nodes relative to the initial injected radioactivity

From: Dual-modality imaging with 99mTc and fluorescent indocyanine green using surface-modified silica nanoparticles for biopsy of the sentinel lymph node: an animal study

Lymph node

Radioactivity count

%/dose

Rat C, 1

192.7 ± 6.7

0.001

Rat C, 2

47.3 ± 9.5

0.000

Rat C, 3

1,189.7 ± 31.8

0.004

Rat D, 1

61.3 ± 1.5

0.000

Rat D, 2

6,528.7 ± 135.4

0.020

Rat D, 3

73,784.3 ± 1,043.8

0.231

Rat D, 4

28.3 ± 5.1

0.000

Rat E, 1

13,293.7 ± 451.0

0.012

Rat E, 2

12.3 ± 2.5

0.000

Rat E, 3

10.0 ± 3.0

0.000

Rat E, 4

12.7 ± 0.6

0.000

Rat F, 1

472.7 ± 21.2

0.000

Rat F, 2

6,745.7 ± 392.6

0.006

Rat F, 3

19.7 ± 2.5

0.000

Rat F, 4

10.7 ± 6.7

0.000

  1. Radioactivity was assayed at different times post-injection in rats C, D, E, and F.