Robotic system for transrectal biopsy of the prostate: real-time guidance under MRI.
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.
Elhawary
Haytham
H
School of Engineering (TECNUN), University of Navarra, Spain.
Tse
Zion Tsz-Ho
ZT
Rea
Marc
M
Zivanovic
Alex
A
Davies
Brian L
BL
Besant
Colin
C
de Souza
Nandita M
NM
McRobbie
Donald
D
Young
Ian
I
Lampérth
Michael U
MU
D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003199:Computer Systems; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012007:Rectum / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014584:User-Computer Interface