MR guided FUS therapy with a Robotic Assistance System
Abstract
Magnetic Resonance imaging guided Focus Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) is a highly precise method to ablate tissue non-invasively. To date, there is only one commercial MRgFUS system available and only a few are in a prototype stage. The objective of this ongoing project is to establish an MRgFUS therapy unit as add-on for a commercially available robotic assistance system originally designed for percutaneous needle interventions in whole-body MR scanners.
- Publication:
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8th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound
- Pub Date:
- April 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3131451
- Bibcode:
- 2009AIPC.1113..372J
- Keywords:
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- 87.61.-c;
- 43.38.+n;
- 43.80.Sh;
- Magnetic resonance imaging;
- Transduction;
- acoustical devices for the generation and reproduction of sound;
- Medical use of ultrasonics for tissue modification