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Use of MRI-ultrasound Fusion to Achieve Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Published on: April 9, 2019
Robotic system for transrectal biopsy of the prostate: real-time guidance under MRI
Haytham Elhawary1, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, Marc Rea
1School of Engineering (TECNUN), University of Navarra, Spain.
Abstract:
In this paper, to harness the possibility of real-time guidance of MRI, a robotic system has been developed to perform transrectal prostate biopsy inside a 1.5-T closed bore scanner. A specially developed MR pulse sequence is capable of tracking the needle location in real time while dynamically updating the scan planes to always include the needle and target.
