Abstract
This report describes our initial in vitro results with robotically-assisted strain imaging for intraoperative monitoring of hepatic tumor thermal ablation. First, we demonstrate a strong correlation between thermal ablation of liver tissue and changes in elastic properties. Second, we present an experimental environment to provide controlled robotically-assisted compression of liver tissue with concurrent ultrasonic reading. Third, we present B-mode strain images of thermally treated liver samples, where the strain images corresponded to the boundaries of histologically confirmed necrosis.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 81-88 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Volume | 3217 |
Issue number | 1 PART 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2004 |
Event | Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2004 - 7th International Conference, Proceedings - Saint-Malo, France Duration: Sep 26 2004 → Sep 29 2004 |