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Total Citations
564
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About
Nynke S. van den Berg is a pioneer at the intersection of surgical oncology and advanced imaging, whose work is redefining precision in minimally invasive cancer surgery. Her research centers on the development and clinical translation of hybrid image-guided technologies, particularly for sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping. She is best known for championing a "best of both worlds" approach that combines radio- and fluorescence-guidance, a concept detailed in her most-cited work (155 citations). Her major contributions include optimizing fluorescence guidance during robot-assisted laparoscopic SLN biopsy for prostate cancer (119 citations) and introducing multispectral fluorescence imaging to create an intraoperative "anatomic roadmap" (64 citations). Van den Berg has been instrumental in bridging nuclear medicine with robotic surgery, as seen in her work on multimodal hybrid imaging agents (61 citations). Notably, she led the first-in-human evaluation of a PSMA-targeted near-infrared fluorescent agent for prostate cancer identification (35 citations) and pioneered the use of a drop-in gamma probe for robotic SPECT imaging (42 citations). With a portfolio of highly cited papers and a focus on translating lab innovations into the operating room, van den Berg’s work is shaping the future of image-guided, robot-assisted oncology.
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- 5A narrative review of fluorescence imaging in robotic-assisted surgery48 citations · 2021
- 6First Robotic SPECT for Minimally Invasive Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping42 citations · 2015
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