MR navigated breast surgery: method and initial clinical experience

Timothy Carter1, Christine Tanner, Nicolas Beechey-Newman

  • 1Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, WC1E 6BT, UK. timothy.carter@ucl.ac.uk

Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
|November 6, 2008
PubMed
Summary

3D dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (dCE-MRI) can improve breast conserving surgery outcomes. A new biomechanical registration technique corrects for tissue deformation between prone MRI scans and supine surgery, enhancing image guidance accuracy.

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