An apparatus and method are provided for precisely isolating a target lesion in a patient’s body tissue, resulting in a high likelihood of \u201cclean\u201d margins about the lesion when it is removed for diagnosis andor therapy. Furthermore, the pallet assembly device of the invention is preferably fed stacks of pallet components, and thereby eliminates the need for an assembly operator to manually position various pallet components in a jig or carriage. If the one or more state change criteria for the network device are satisfied, then the network device is signaled over a communications network to cause the network device to change operational states. It can then be determined whether the particular mobile station is to switch between the PTP operating mode and the PTM operating mode. Graphical information may be generated and displayed to the user of the portable transaction device regarding the gaming environment.