Introducing navigation during melanoma-related sentinel lymph node procedures in the head-and-neck region

EJNMMI Research

Table 3 Information provided by different intraoperative imaging modalities

	2D information	3D information	Acoustic read-out	Numerical read-out	Visual read-out	Depth information	Anatomical detail
Neoprobe gamma probe^{a ,b}	−	−	+	+	−	−	−
Sentinella gamma camera^{a, b}	+	−	+	+	+ (Gamma image)	−	−
PDE fluorescence camera^{a, b}	+	−	−	−	+ (Fluorescence image)	+/−	+
(Chrystal) gamma camera combined with freehandSPECT (incl. Navigation of Chrystal gamma probe and acoustic confirmation with the same probe)^a	+	+	+	+	+ (Gamma image)	+	−
Fluorescence camera combined with freehandSPECT	+	+	+	+	+ (Gamma + fluorescence image)	+	+