The development of the β− based radio-guided surgery aims to extend the technique to those tumours where surgery is the only possible treatment and the assessment of the resection would most profit from the low background around the lesion, as for brain tumours. Feasibility studies on meningioma, glioma, and neuroendocrine tumors already estimated the potentiality of this new treatment. To validate the technique, prototypes of the intraoperative probe required by the technique to detect β− radiation have been developed. This paper discusses the design details of the device and the tests performed in laboratory. In such tests particular care has to be taken to reproduce the surgical field conditions. The innovative technique to produce specific phantoms and the dedicated testing protocols is described in detail.
@article{arxiv.1511.02059,
title = {An Intraoperative $\beta^-$ Detecting Probe For Radio-Guided Surgery in Tumour Resection},
author = {Andrea Russomando and Fabio Bellini and Valerio Bocci and Giacomo Chiodi and Francesco Collamati and Erika De Lucia and Raffaella Donnarumma and Riccardo Faccini and Carlo Mancini Terracciano and Michela Marafini and Riccardo Paramatti and Vincenzo Patera and %Davide Pinci and Luigi Recchia and Alessio Sarti and Adalberto Sciubba and Elena Solfaroli Camillocci and Cecilia Voena and Silvio Morganti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02059},
year = {2016}
}