AUF STRAHLUNG ANSPRECHENDES CHIRURGISCHES INSTRUMENT

A crystal containing detector (56) particularly suited for use in immunoguided surgery capable of detecting gamma emissions present at tumor sites. The instrument utilizes a cadmium-zinc-telluride detector crystal which may be retained within a finger mount (50) positioned over the surgeon's finger. Within this mount there also is incorporated a first preamplification stage (58) designed to accumulate charge signals from the detector as well as to drive a relatively short length of cable (22) to a second preamplification stage located, for example, within a housing (30) at the surgeon's upper arm. The small finger mounted probe (50) may be moved between operative orientations at the underside of the tip of the finger to stand-by orientations at the top of the finger adjacent the knuckles. In an additional embodiment, the finger probe incorporates a sodium iodide crystal, the scintillations from which are transmitted via a short length of fiber optic cable to an upper arm mounted housing which contains a photomultiplier tube. Signals from the remote, arm-mounted housing (30) then are transmitted via longer cabling (34) or the like to a control console.