ArticleJournal of robotic surgery2023
Click-on fluorescence detectors: using robotic surgical instruments to characterize molecular tissue aspects.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Flexible intraoperative detectors for robotic and laparoscopic image-guided surgery: a systematic review.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026Pooled it
- Intraoperative molecular imaging - it's all about advancing surgical decision making and improving dexterity.Zeitschrift fur medizinische Physik · 2026Review
- Clinical Value of Fluorescent Lymphography with Indocyanine Green During Robotic Surgery for Gastric Cancer in Guided Lymph Node Dissection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Hybrid Surgical Guidance in Urologic Robotic Oncological Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Transforming biliary surgery: Innovations in fluorescence-guided imaging and indocyanine green application.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- Optical molecular imaging technology and its application in precise surgical navigation of liver cancer.Theranostics · 2025Review
- Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy in Urological Malignancies: Current Applications and Future Perspectives.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Fluorescence imaging is increasingly being implemented in surgery. One of the drawbacks of its application is the need to switch back-and-forth between fluorescence- and white-light-imaging settings and not being able to dissect safely under fluorescence guidance. The aim of this study was to engineer 'click-on' fluorescence detectors that transform standard robotic instruments into molecular sensing devices that enable the surgeon to detect near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence in a white-light setting. This NIR-fluorescence detector setup was engineered to be press-fitted onto standard forceps instruments of the da Vinci robot. Following system characterization in a phantom setting (i.e., spectral properties, sensitivity and tissue signal attenuation), the performance with regard to different clinical indocyanine green (ICG) indications (e.g., angiography and lymphatic mapping) was determined via robotic surgery in pigs. To evaluate in-human applicability, the setup was also used for ICG-containing lymph node specimens from robotic prostate cancer surgery. The resulting Click-On device allowed for NIR ICG signal identification down to a concentration of 4.77 × 10
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