Sentences with phrase «biopsy needle»

Digital health will improve the way we practice medicine; in this case, a painless scan is clearly safer than a biopsy needle, and is far better suited to monitoring patients.

The surgeon mounts it on the side of the operating table and fixes to the end a surgical instrument or a biopsy needle for taking samples of tissue.

It allows us to target the biopsy needles exactly where we think the cancer is located.

Two years later another tumour was discovered in the exact area where the biopsy needle had been withdrawn.

the presence of large regions of tumour that do have the T790M mutation, but were missed by the biopsy needle (tumour heterogeneity);

The team showed that Kinect, the optical hardware from Microsoft, Inc., and image - recognition algorithms used to identify and track the location and orientation of objects in its visual field could be adapted to locate and track the motions of a biopsy needle.

Sometimes, the veterinarian can obtain these biopsy samples without surgery by directing a biopsy needle with an ultrasound machine; or using an apparatus called a laparoscope.