A Review of Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Imaging in Surgery

Table 1

The number of ICG-related publications: queries from databases PubMed, ISI, SPIE, and IEEE (26.7.2011).

Keyword	PubMed	ISI	SPIE	IEEE
“Indocyanine” (ICG)	6069	5159	301	57
ICG and “surgery”	2160	1059	25	4
ICG and “liver”	2031	1164	18	5
ICG and “retina”	1176	406	7	11
ICG and “cancer”	816	372	49	14
ICG and “tomography”	748	594	29	10
ICG and “imaging”	697	828	130	43
ICG and “heart”	483	174	3	0
ICG and “wound”	190	53	24	1
ICG and “lymph”	128	115	11	1
ICG and “brain”	127	119	16	0
ICG and “breast”	105	189	35	10
ICG and “laparoscopy”	47	26	0	0