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Title Study of 4 inorganic scintillating crystals for an operative gamma probe in radioguided surgery
Author(s) Salvador, S (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, France) ; Guyonnet, J L (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, France)
Publication 2007
Number of pages 8
In: JINST 2 (2007) pp.P08003
Subject category Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract In case of lymphatic cancers, the sentinel lymph node technique is performed using a gamma probe for intraoperative radioguided surgery. The inorganic scintillating crystal gamma probe developed at IPHC was equipped with 4 fast decay time inorganic scintillators: YAP, LYSO, LaCl3 and LaBr3. Energy resolutions are compared experimentally with single photon radioisotopes for small crystal cylinders (4 mm diameter, 12 mm length). The 6.1% measured energy resolution at 511 keV demonstrates the great advantage to use the high photon yield LaBr3 crystal for detection of γ-ray coming from positron annihilation using β+ radiomarked molecules.

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