TY - JOUR
T1 - Robotic strain imaging for monitoring thermal ablation of liver
AU - Boctor, Emad M.
AU - Fichtinger, Gabor
AU - Yeung, Ambert
AU - Awad, Michael
AU - Taylor, Russell H.
AU - Choti, Michael A.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_11
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:20344405216
SN - 0302-9743
VL - 3217
SP - 81
EP - 88
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
IS - 1 PART 2
T2 - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2004 - 7th International Conference, Proceedings
Y2 - 26 September 2004 through 29 September 2004
ER -