# Lightpoint Medical

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## TL;DR

Lightpoint Medical is a British company that built LightPath, which images the faint Cerenkov light from PET tracers in a freshly removed tumour specimen, and SENSEI, a tiny gamma probe that a surgical robot can hold to find radioactive lymph nodes.

## Summary

Lightpoint Medical, founded in 2012, developed Cerenkov luminescence imaging for intraoperative margin assessment, trialled in prostatectomy after gallium-68 PSMA injection, and the SENSEI drop-in gamma probe for robot-assisted sentinel node and PSMA-radioguided surgery, which is CE-marked and FDA-cleared. It works with radiopharmaceutical and robotics partners.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Tags: machines-wave2
- HQ: Chesham
- Type: devices
- Website: https://www.lightpointmedical.com/

## Sources

- Official website: https://www.lightpointmedical.com/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- technologies: [Gamma probes, handheld gamma cameras and dose calibrators](https://onco.cc/technologies/gamma-probes-dose-calibrators/), [Intraoperative fluorescence and Cerenkov imaging systems (SPY, Firefly, LumiSystem, LightPath)](https://onco.cc/technologies/intraoperative-fluorescence-imaging-systems/), [PSMA PET](https://onco.cc/technologies/psma-pet/), [Sentinel lymph node biopsy](https://onco.cc/technologies/sentinel-node/)

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