Cyril J Ferrer1, Clemens Bos1, Marijn van Stralen1, Baudoin Denis de Senneville2, Chrit T.W Moonen1, and Lambertus W Bartels1
MR-guided High Intensity Focused
Ultrasound has recently been suggested to provide non-invasive alternative
treatment options for pancreatic cancer patients. To successfully apply PRFS MR
Thermometry in the pancreas motion correction techniques have to be applied. For other
moving organs, several solutions have already been proposed to this end: gating,
multibaseline and referenceless. However, due to specific properties of
the pancreas, there was still a need to evaluate the performance of these
methods in this organ. Our results show that all the evaluated techniques improved thermometry in the pancreas to a level that is sufficient to
monitor thermal ablation.
