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Use of MRI-ultrasound Fusion to Achieve Targeted Prostate Biopsy

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Published on: April 9, 2019

Srinivas Vourganti¹, Norman Starkweather², Andrij Wojtowycz²

¹Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison Street, Suite 970 POB III, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA. srinivas_vourganti@rush.edu.

Current Urology Reports

|February 25, 2017

Abstract:

MR/US fusion biopsy has emerged as a significant refinement of traditional prostate cancer diagnostic techniques. Utilizing not only quantitative imaging suspicion information from mpMRI but also the spatial accuracy and three-dimensional localization allows such strategies to specifically sample areas of concern with the gland. As such, diagnostic certainty is markedly improved. In this manuscript, we aim to highlight the multidisciplinary approach (amongst urologists, radiologists, pathologists, imaging technologists, nursing staff, and patients) which is required to launch and maintain a successful prostate imaging program.

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Imaging MR/US fusion biopsy MRI Prostate cancer

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