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Riccardo Faccini
Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica
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Background: Recently, a flexible DROP-IN gamma-probe was introduced for robot-assisted radioguided surgery, using traditional low-energy SPECT-isotopes. In parallel, a novel approach to achieve sensitive radioguidance using beta-emitting PET-isotopes has been proposed. Integration of these two concepts would allow to exploit the use of PET-tracers during robot-assisted tumor-receptor-targeted. In this study, we’ve engineered and validated the performance of a novel DROP-IN beta-particle (DROP-INb) detector.
Methods: Seven prostate cancer patients with PSMA-PET positive tumors received an additional intraoperative injection of ~70 MBq 68Ga-PSMA-11, followed by robot-assisted prostatectomy and extended pelvic lymph node dissection. The surgical specimens from these procedures were used to validate the performance of our DROP-INb probe prototype, which merged a scintillating detector with a housing optimized for a 12 mm trocar and prograsp instruments.
Results: After optimization of the detector and probe housing via Monte Carlo simulations, the resulting DROP-INb probe prototype was tested in a robotic setting. In the ex vivo setting, the probe – positioned by the robot- was able to identify 68Ga-PSMA-11 containing hot-spots in the surgical specimens: signal-to-background (S/B) was > 5 when pathology confirmed that the tumor was located <1 mm below the specimen surface. 68Ga-PSMA-11 containing (and PET positive) lymph nodes, as found in two patients, were also confirmed with the DROP-INb probe (S/B>3). The rotational freedom of the DROP-IN design and the ability to manipulate the probe with the prograsp tool allowed the surgeon to perform autonomous beta tracing.
Conclusions: This study demonstrates the feasibility of beta-radioguided surgery in a robotic context by means of a DROP-INb detector. When translated to an in vivo setting in the future, this technique could provide a valuable tool in detecting tumor remnants on the prostate surface and in confirmation of PSMA-PET positive lymph nodes.
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Radioguided surgery, beta particle detection, robot-assisted surgery, prostate cancer, PET, PSMA
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Riccardo Faccini
Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica
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Background: Recently, a flexible DROP-IN gamma-probe was introduced for robot-assisted radioguided surgery, using traditional low-energy SPECT-isotopes. In parallel, a novel approach to achieve sensitive radioguidance using beta-emitting PET-isotopes has been proposed. Integration of these two concepts would allow to exploit the use of PET-tracers during robot-assisted tumor-receptor-targeted. In this study, we’ve engineered and validated the performance of a novel DROP-IN beta-particle (DROP-INb) detector.
Methods: Seven prostate cancer patients with PSMA-PET positive tumors received an additional intraoperative injection of ~70 MBq 68Ga-PSMA-11, followed by robot-assisted prostatectomy and extended pelvic lymph node dissection. The surgical specimens from these procedures were used to validate the performance of our DROP-INb probe prototype, which merged a scintillating detector with a housing optimized for a 12 mm trocar and prograsp instruments.
Results: After optimization of the detector and probe housing via Monte Carlo simulations, the resulting DROP-INb probe prototype was tested in a robotic setting. In the ex vivo setting, the probe – positioned by the robot- was able to identify 68Ga-PSMA-11 containing hot-spots in the surgical specimens: signal-to-background (S/B) was > 5 when pathology confirmed that the tumor was located <1 mm below the specimen surface. 68Ga-PSMA-11 containing (and PET positive) lymph nodes, as found in two patients, were also confirmed with the DROP-INb probe (S/B>3). The rotational freedom of the DROP-IN design and the ability to manipulate the probe with the prograsp tool allowed the surgeon to perform autonomous beta tracing.
Conclusions: This study demonstrates the feasibility of beta-radioguided surgery in a robotic context by means of a DROP-INb detector. When translated to an in vivo setting in the future, this technique could provide a valuable tool in detecting tumor remnants on the prostate surface and in confirmation of PSMA-PET positive lymph nodes.
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