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A System for Prostate Intervention in a 1.5 T MRI Scanner in the Supine Position

Gregory James Bootsma¹, Axel Krieger², Iulian I. Iordachita², Cameron Piron³, Josh Richmond³, Gal Sela³, Matthew Filleti¹, Cathy Rocca¹, Anna Kirilova¹, Kristy Brock¹, David A. Jaffray¹, Masoom A. Haider⁴, ⁵, Cynthia Ménard¹

¹Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³Sentinelle Medical Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ⁵Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MR Imaging Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Using a 32-Channel Phased-Array Coil at 3 Tesla

Thomas Hambrock¹, Jürgen J. Fütterer¹, Christina Hulsbergen-van de Kaa¹, Henkjan J. Huisman¹, J A. Witjes¹, Axel Winkel², Jelle O. Barentsz¹

¹UMC St. Radboud, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands; ²Invivo GMBH, Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

MRI Assessment of Renal Function During Endovascular Stenting of Renal Artery Stenosis in Swine

Thomas K. Rhee¹, Jonathan K. Park¹, Ty A. Cashen¹, ², Wanyong Shin¹, ², Scott A. Resnick¹, James A. Gehl¹, Brian E. Schirf¹, Dingxin Wang¹, ², Timothy J. Carroll¹, ², Reed A. Omary¹, ²

¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 

Preliminary Clinical Experience with Liver and Bone Biopsies Guided by a Robotic Assistance System in a Closed-Bore 1.5T MR Scanner

Michael Moche¹, Harald Busse¹, Dirk Zajonz¹, Robert Trampel¹, Thomas Kahn¹

¹University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
 

Faster Needle Insertion Using a 1.5 T Interventional Scanner and Tri Orthogonal Plane Guidance

Jamal Jon Derakhshan¹, Simi Paul², Jens O. Heidenreich², Jeffrey L. Sunshine², Mark A. Griswold², Jeffrey L. Duerk, ¹², Sherif G. Nour, ¹²

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

A Novel Needle Driver for Tumor Detection and Biopsy in Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Geng Li¹, ², Richard L. Ehman³, Phillip J. Rossman³, Scott A. Kruse³, Daniel F. Kacher², Edward S. Yang¹, Queenie CC Chan¹, Ferenc A. Jolesz²

¹The University of Hong Kong, HK, HKSAR, People’s Republic of China; ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
 

A Fiber-Based Optical Excitation-Emission Fluorescence Spectrometer for MR-Guided In Vivo Tissue Characterization

Daniel A. Herzka¹, ², Melanie S. Kotys², Sascha Krueger³, Bryan J. Traughber⁴, Harry T. Friel⁵, Ahmed M. Gharib², Steffen Weiss³, Roderic I. Pettigrew², Bradford J. Wood⁴

¹Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA; ²NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ⁴Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁵Philips Medical Systems, Highland Heights, Ohio, USA
 

Phantom Experiments with a Novel MR-Guided Transrectal Prostate Interventional System

Axel Krieger¹, Csaba Csoma¹, Peter Guion², Iulian I. Iordachita¹, Gregory J. Metzger³, Di Qian¹, Anurag Singh², Louis L. Whitcomb¹, Gabor Fichtinger¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²NCI - NIH-DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 

RF-Safe Intravascular Imaging Using a Self-Visualizing Transformer Line - not available

Sascha Krueger¹, Oliver Lips¹, Karl M. Ruhl², Elmar Spuentrup², Sebastian Schmitz³, Steffen Weiss¹, Daniel Wirtz¹, Arno Buecker⁴

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ²University Clinic Aachen, Aachen, Germany; ³Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Aachen, Germany; ⁴University Clinic Saarland, Homburg, Germany

An MRI Endoscope?

Shashank Sathyanarayana¹, Michael Schar², ³, Paul A. Bottomley, ¹²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Visualization of a Passive Intra-Myocardial Needle with Off-Resonance Positive Contrast FLAPS Imaging for

Regenerative Myocardial Therapy

Rohan Dharmakumar¹, Ioannis Koktzoglou¹, Richard Tang¹, Kathleen R. Harris¹, Nirat Beohar¹, Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 

Fast Image Registration for Real-Time Cardiac MRI Guided Intervention

Janakan Satkunasingham¹, Desmond Chung¹, Graham A. Wright¹, Perry Radau¹

¹Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada