Setup showing the laser guidance system in combination with the aiming device. Credit: Academic Radiology.
Laser guidance has been shown to improve needle placement accuracy during percutaneous interventions, but this procedure has drawbacks, experts explained recently.
Example of interventional echocardiography TEE imaging superimposed on live fluoro during a transseptal puncture for a MitraClip procedure.
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) released a new guideline document that outlines uniform training standards for interventional sonographers guiding structural heart procedures.
The recently FDA-cleared program merges patient-specific information from prostate imaging, biopsies and pathology, resulting in a deep learning algorithm that creates an AI-generated 3D map of cancer.
Experts from Mayo Clinic recently detailed their experience with the new offering, sharing that out of their 10 top ranked candidates, six had signaled the program.
Breast MRI example showing a signal void in right breast (arrow) caused by biopsy on an axial contrast-enhanced in-phase Dixon image. It shows a signal void in right breast (arrow), which corresponded with a MammoMark/CorMark Bread Tie biopsy clip. Image courtesy of AJR.
A team of experts recently developed the new system to differentiate between malignant and benign "second look" lesions on MRI for women with known breast cancer.
Sagittal (a) and axial (b) CT images from the cervical spine show congenital stenosis and central disc protrusion leading to severe narrowing of the central spinal canal at C3–4 level.
Credit: Clinical Imaging
This is increasingly recognized as a potentially underreported phenomenon, accounting for roughly half of all such injuries in certain populations.