WIRELESS GAMMAPROBE SURGICAL EXPLORER 2010

For Applications in Lymphoscintillography & Lymphobiopsy for Sentinel Node Mapping in Surgery

Professor Carl Munoz-Ferrada who pioneered Gamma Probe technology in Australia
continues to add his knowledge and expertise in surgery, nuclear medicine, physics and
engineering, helping to take Gammasonics technology to every corner of the world.
We introduce the first ZigBee wireless Gamma Probe to communicate to a Touchcomputer.

The wireless Gamma Probe ‘Explorer’ is capable to perform Laparoscopy also. The Explorer is the only Gammaprobe that can be operated with a Gamma Camera. Gammasonics also pioneered the directional collimator in Australia more then 15 Years ago with our Gammaprobe MKII.

We produced the only Gamma Probe with a built in check source. We introduced the micro-processing and software integration to the Gamma Probe. We introduced Artificial Intelligence to Gamma Probe technology. But most important, our design of Gamma Probe technology was aided by medical people, engineers, scientists and technicians to fulfill a need in surgery.

The new wireless Gamma Probe (Explorer) is based on the ZigBee protocol, while housing electronics, pre-amplifier and carries the most reliable scintillator that has ever been used in our Gamma Probe generations. Using these components the Explorer is the most sensitive and precise instrument available to assist sentinel node mapping in surgery. Further more it can assist Nuclear Medicine physicians in the easy identification in Parathyroid Glads.

The Touchcomputer included operates with a powerful software package featuring an artificial intelligence tool/application. Providing surgeons with invaluable information to develop their own teaching tool as the unit will learn from case-to-case to identify and warn the surgeon when they are in the vicinity or close proximity to a node. Because of the Explorer’s directional and precise measurements, it helps to reduce surgery time. As well, the unit can work with a very low dose left in the patient, making it possible to easily identify nodes intra-cavity without the need of high activities.

The Explorer works best when the medical team have defined:

• The Injection time.
• The correct colloid.
• The correct activity and calculated time of surgery, to the adequate decaying time of the isotope.
• Selecting the right patient (EG: T1, T2).
• Lymphatic Damage can be determined by the history of the patient.
• Size and age of the patient.

Other features include:

• Bright and large display with ease to read
• Storage of patient data (60GB)
• Provision to connect to hospital information management system to exchange data such as patient medical history, surgical information, surgery results, radioisotope injection record, etc
• Optional wireless voice recognition and audio package
• Optional Gamma Camera Imaging (GP-2020tc) probe for on-line lymphoscintography can be operated simultaneously when the gammaprobe is in operation for intra-cavity procedures.