TY - JOUR
T1 - Percutaneous biopsy from blinded to MR guided
T2 - An update on current techniques and applications
AU - Nour, Sherif Gamal
AU - Lewin, Jonathan S.
PY - 2005/8/1
Y1 - 2005/8/1
N2 - The advent of interventional MR imaging techniques as well as their adoption to guide percutaneous biopsies and aspirations has served as a further step along a series of technical refinements that commenced with the implementation of image-guided approaches for tissue sampling. Nowadays, the practice of and the expectations from these procedures are quite different from those of the blind percutaneous thrusts performed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As the field of interventional MR imaging continues to flourish and to attract more radiologists who realize the many opportunities that this technology can offer to their patients, there is a need for a full comprehension of the concepts, techniques, limitations, and cost-effectiveness of MR imaging guidance to present this service to clinical partners in the appropriate setting. Radiologists should also recognize the need for their significant involvement in the technical aspects of MR-guided procedures, because several user-defined parameters and trajectory decisions can alter device visualization in the MR imaging environment and hence affect procedure safety.
AB - The advent of interventional MR imaging techniques as well as their adoption to guide percutaneous biopsies and aspirations has served as a further step along a series of technical refinements that commenced with the implementation of image-guided approaches for tissue sampling. Nowadays, the practice of and the expectations from these procedures are quite different from those of the blind percutaneous thrusts performed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As the field of interventional MR imaging continues to flourish and to attract more radiologists who realize the many opportunities that this technology can offer to their patients, there is a need for a full comprehension of the concepts, techniques, limitations, and cost-effectiveness of MR imaging guidance to present this service to clinical partners in the appropriate setting. Radiologists should also recognize the need for their significant involvement in the technical aspects of MR-guided procedures, because several user-defined parameters and trajectory decisions can alter device visualization in the MR imaging environment and hence affect procedure safety.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mric.2005.04.009
DO - 10.1016/j.mric.2005.04.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16084412
AN - SCOPUS:23444440848
VL - 13
SP - 441
EP - 464
JO - Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America
JF - Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America
SN - 1064-9689
IS - 3
ER -