Robotic system for transrectal biopsy of the prostate: real-time guidance under MRI

Haytham Elhawary; Zion Tsz-Ho Tse; Marc Rea; Alex Zivanovic; Brian L Davies; Colin Besant; Nandita M de Souza; Donald McRobbie; Ian Young; Michael U Lampérth

doi:10.1109/MEMB.2009.935709

Robotic system for transrectal biopsy of the prostate: real-time guidance under MRI

IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag. 2010 Mar-Apr;29(2):78-86. doi: 10.1109/MEMB.2009.935709.

Authors

Haytham Elhawary¹, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, Marc Rea, Alex Zivanovic, Brian L Davies, Colin Besant, Nandita M de Souza, Donald McRobbie, Ian Young, Michael U Lampérth

Affiliation

¹ School of Engineering (TECNUN), University of Navarra, Spain.

PMID: 20659844
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2009.935709

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biopsy, Needle / instrumentation*
Computer Systems
Equipment Design
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / instrumentation*
Male
Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery*
Rectum / pathology
Rectum / surgery
Robotics / instrumentation*
Surgery, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
User-Computer Interface