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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Oral Oncol. 2012 Aug 28;49(1):15–19. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2012.07.017

Table 2.

Results from In Vivo SLN Imaging

Patient no. NIR Hotspots Total LNs Harvested LN+ Mean SBR Location of NIR Hotspots
1 3 14 No 16.3 2A
2 1 26 No 21.0 1
3 1 30 No 12.0 1
4 3 35 Yes (SLN +) 3.2 1
5 2 9 No 2.6 2A
6 1 20 Yes (SLN +) 4.2 2A
7 2 24 No 5.2 3
8 1 15 No 4.2 3
9 2 17 Yes (SLN −) 5.7 2A
10 1 39 No 12.3 2A

NIR: Near Infrared, LN: Lymph Node, SBR: Signal-to-background