Volume navigation with contrast enhanced ultrasound and image fusion for percutaneous interventions: first results.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Assessing the feasibility and efficiency of interventions using ultrasound (US) volume navigation (V Nav) with real time needle tracking and image fusion with contrast enhanced (ce) CT, MRI or US.

Methods

First an in vitro study on a liver phantom with CT data image fusion was performed, involving the puncture of a 10 mm lesion in a depth of 5 cm performed by 15 examiners with US guided freehand technique vs. V Nav for the purpose of time optimization. Then 23 patients underwent ultrasound-navigated biopsies or interventions using V Nav image fusion of live ultrasound with ceCT, ceMRI or CEUS, which were acquired before the intervention. A CEUS data set was acquired in all patients. Image fusion was established for CEUS and CT or CEUS and MRI using anatomical landm

SUBMITTER: Jung EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3309014 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature