Southern Scientific has been appointed exclusive UK distributor for the C-Trak surgical guidance system, designed to be used by surgeons to identify and locate tissues containing a radioisotope label
At the heart of C-Trak is a small, hand-held, gamma detector probe with which the surgeon can determine whether surgically removed tissue contains radioisotope material and, by repeated assay, establish whether all radioisotope containing material has been removed from the operative site.
C-Trak is capable of measuring gamma energies up to 364keV and is designed to detect small sites of radioisotope uptake in the high scatter, highly variable background environments found with imaging radiolabels such as Indium 111 and Technetium 99m.
Patented nap-on collimators are supplied that can be used to vary the probe's field of view from wide area for surveying to narrow for probe-guided resection.
The collimators can be selected to suit tissue and background levels and also used in conjunction with a patented blocking plate to reduce radiation from outside the selected field of view.
C-Trak is ideal for lymph studies and, because the head of the compact probe is angled at 30deg, it is particularly suited to surgical searches in tight anatomical spaces such as the pelvis.
