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Use of MRI-ultrasound Fusion to Achieve Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Published on: April 9, 2019
Execution of robot-assisted biopsies within the clinical context
1Mechanics Department, Telerobotics Laboratory, Politecnico of Milano, Italy. rovetta@polimi.ipmcc3.it
Journal of Image Guided Surgery
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
This paper describes the first prostatic biopsy on a human patient using a robotic and telerobotic system. This system was designed at the Politecnico di Milano, and the biopsy was performed on April 7, 1995, in the Hospital Policlinico in Milan, Italy.

