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  • Urology
  • Radiology
  • Medical Robotics

Background:

  • Traditional in-bore, MRI-guided prostate biopsies are manual, time-consuming, and expensive.
  • The manual process requires repeated patient repositioning within the MRI scanner, increasing procedural duration and cost.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy and efficiency of robot-guided prostate biopsies.
  • To present findings from the first 201 patients undergoing robot-guided prostate biopsies in the Netherlands.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing a remote-controlled manipulator robot (RCM) for precise needle guide positioning during MRI-guided prostate biopsies.
  • Comparing the RCM technique with traditional manual in-bore biopsy methods.

Main Results:

  • Robot-guided prostate biopsies are simpler to learn and less time-consuming than manual methods.
  • The RCM approach reduces the overall time patients spend in the MRI suite.

Conclusions:

  • Robot-guided prostate biopsy is a viable, efficient alternative to manual MRI-guided biopsy.
  • The RCM technique offers significant advantages in terms of time and potentially cost-effectiveness for prostate biopsies.