Three-axis MR-conditional robot for high-intensity focused ultrasound for treating prostate diseases transrectally

Christos Yiallouras,Kleanthis Ioannides,Tetiana Dadakova,Matt Pavlina,Michael Bock,Christakis Damianou

Three-axis MR-conditional robot for high-intensity focused ultrasound for treating prostate diseases transrectally

2015

Christos Yiallouras
Kleanthis Ioannides
Tetiana Dadakova
Matt Pavlina
Michael Bock
Christakis Damianou

Background A prototype magnetic resonance image (MRI)-conditional robot was developed for navigating a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) system in order to treat prostate cancer transrectally.

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High-intensity focused ultrasound
Prostate Diseases
Biomedical engineering
Prostate cancer
Robot
Ultrasound
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medicine
Bioinformatics
Rotary encoder
Transducer
Signal-to-noise ratio
mr conditional

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