Elodie Breton1, Eva Rothgang2, 3, Li Pan2, Julien Garnon4, Georgia Tsoumakidou4, Xavier Buy4, Christine H. Lorenz2, Michel de Mathelin1, Afshin Gangi, 14
1LSIIT - AVR, University of Strasbourg - CNRS, Strasbourg, France; 2Center for Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, MD, United States; 3Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany; 4Interventional Radiology Department, Nouvel Hpital Civil, Strasbourg, France
The multiplanar imaging capabilities of MR are of great advantage for real-time needle guidance. The focus of this work is to clinically evaluate an advanced MR guidance approach for percutaneous needle interventions providing an interactive, real-time multi-slice pulse sequence (Beat_IRTTT) in combination with an interventional MRI software package (Interactive Front End, IFE). This approach was used for 9 spinal infiltrations and 6 abdominal biopsies. To our experience, automatic real-time slice alignment greatly simplifies the workflow. The proposed real-time slice layout with three slices along the planned trajectory orthogonal to each other further allows for efficient and safe needle placement.