Abstract
Personalized therapies play an increasingly critical role in cancer care: Image guidance with multimodality image fusion facilitates the targeting of specific tissue for tissue characterization and plays a role in drug discovery and optimization of tailored therapies. Positron-emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) may offer additional information not otherwise available to the operator during minimally invasive image-guided procedures, such as biopsy and ablation. With use of multimodality image fusion for image-guided interventions, navigation with advanced modalities does not require the physical presence of the PET, MRI, or CT imaging system. Several commercially available methods of image-fusion and device navigation are reviewed along with an explanation of common tracking hardware and software. An overview of current clinical applications for multimodality navigation is provided.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 986-998 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Ablation
- Chemoembolization
- Endovascular aneurysm repair
- Image fusion
- Imaging
- Interventional oncology
- Navigation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine