Sentences with phrase «image guidance»

Using image guidance and manipulating tiny instruments, he performs minimally invasive procedures for diagnostic and treatment purposes.

«This study draws attention to the common consensus that the use of low - dose CT scans for image guidance for children is important for quality treatment and to ensure treatment accuracy,» said Stephanie A. Terezakis, MD, co-author of the study and assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore.

Interventional Radiology is a range of treatments performed under image guidance performed by specially trained doctors.

That realization, compounded by the increasing complexity of operative environments and the introduction of image guidance and robotics, spurred Bass to action.

The borders of the cavernous malformation were simultaneously drawn in the Brainlab image guidance system to create a lesion volume around the target.

With funding from The Prouty, we've been able to lay the groundwork for developing the necessary technology to hopefully make image guidance for throat cancer surgery a reality.

Kim specializes in computer - assisted minimally invasive spine surgery using image guidance and navigation technologies.

Commonly used for image guidance, interventional procedures (e.g. angiography), and for diagnostic studies such as an Upper GI series.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

During PAE, an interventional radiologist makes a tiny incision in either the groin or wrist to insert a catheter (a small tube about the size of a strand of spaghetti) into an artery and, using image guidance, directs the catheter to the blood vessels on both sides of the enlarged prostate gland.

This combined approach, using surgical planning software and image guidance, provided surgical access that transversed the least amount of brain tissue, significantly reducing the risk of complications and permanent injury.

Dr. Gaspar has 25 years of experience treating thoracic and brain tumors, utilizing stereotactic techniques, intensity modulated radiation therapy and image guidance.