The ACUSITT ultrasonic ablator: The first steerable needle with an integrated interventional tool

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7629, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Burdette, E Clif ^a   Rucker, D Caleb ^d   Prakash, Punit ^c   Diederich, Chris J ^c   Croom, Jordon M ^d   Clarke, Clyde ^b   Stolka, Philipp ^b   Juang, Titania ^c   Boctor, Emad M ^b   Webster III, Robert J ^d  

^a ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Image Guided Surgery; Image Guided Therapy; Liver; Robot; Steerable Needle; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; ABLATORS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY; INTERVENTIONAL; LIVER CAPSULE; LIVER TUMORS; MEDICAL DEVICES; MODEL VALIDATION; NEEDLE STEERING; NEEDLE-LIKE; PERCUTANEOUS DEVICES; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; SENSITIVE STRUCTURE; SINGLE ENTRY; STEERABLE NEEDLE; THERMAL DOSE; THERMAL THERAPIES; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; ULTRASOUND;

ABLATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; LIVER; NEEDLES; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77956844432     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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