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The low intensity of the sources together with the computational cost of the optimization process make the reconstruction in real-time, however, very challenging.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>\n                    . In this paper, we use an optimal design approach to improve the classical pinhole design, resulting in a non-symmetric distribution of the pinholes of the collimator. This new design shows a great improvement of the accuracy when reconstructing the position and depth of the radioactive tracer. Then, we introduce our Sentinel lymph node fingerprinting (SLNF) algorithm, inspired by MR-fingerprinting, for fast and accurate reconstruction of the tracer distribution in 3D space using a single gamma detector image. As a further advantage, the method requires no pre-processing, i.e. filtering of the detector image. The method is very stable in its performance even for low exposure times. In our\n                    <jats:italic>ex vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    experiments, we successfully located multiple Technetium 99m (Tc-99m) sources with an exposure time of only one second and still, with a very small\n                    <jats:italic>L<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    -error.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:italic>Conclusion<\/jats:italic>\n                    . These promising results under short exposure time are very encouraging for SLN biopsy. 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