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RADIOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE MRI GANTRY
STIMULATE 34 | 35 » FOCUS OF THE RESEARCH: SHARP IMAGES, SAFE INSTRUMENT TRACKING, OPTIMAL PATIENT POSITIONING "Our patients are getting older and older and many of them are diagnosed with cancer", says Prof. Wacker, Director of Radiology at the Hanover Medical School. "The elderly patients in particular benefit from minimally invasive, image-guided precision therapies that are safe and effective and require only a short hospital stay. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), hitherto little used in this field, is an ideal modality for supporting minimally invasive procedures, especially in the field of oncology, due to its excellent soft tissue contrast and the ability to show blood circulation as well as heat development. Dr. Urte Kägebein shows an MRI image: "The tumour in the liver is very well visible. The high image quality is a result of magnetic resonance imaging," says the electrical engineering graduate. As a result, not only can diagnostics in the MRI gantry be performed, but also the treatment. The research teams of Urte Kägebein and Enrico Pannicke will contribute to the removal of a liver tumour as shown in this picture by a minimally invasive MRI procedure. The STIMULATE research groups still have some milestones ahead of them. One is real-time imaging. This is almost achieved with three images per second, says Urte Kägebein. The problem, however, is the image contrast in real time. The grey tone sometimes makes it difficult to distinguish the tumour from the other tissue structures. The physicists and engineers at STIMULATE develop software and hardware components that enable continuous MR guidance and can be integrated into any MRI device. Left picture High-resolution and radiation-free MRI scanners are to be developed in STIMULATE for curative minimally invasive local therapies of liver tumours. Right picture The surgeon's interaction with the MRI is greatly simplified by using the optical Moiré Phase tracking system on the needle. Photos: © Harald Krieg
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