ArticleEuropean radiology2014
Robot-assisted radiofrequency ablation of primary and secondary liver tumours: early experience.
Article in European radiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03005756 (Single Center and Exploratory Investigator-initiated Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Needle Guiding Robot System for Radiofrequency Ablation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Single Center and Exploratory Investigator-initiated Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Needle Guiding Robot System for Radiofrequency Ablation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Stereotactic and Robotic Minimally Invasive Thermal Ablation of Malignant Liver Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Pooled it
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- Robotic navigation-assisted percutaneous liver puncture: a pilot study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Robot-Assisted 2D Fluoroscopic Needle Placement-A Phantom Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Puncture Accuracy of Robot-Assisted CT-Based Punctures in Interventional Radiology: An Ex Vivo Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Robotic Assistance in Percutaneous Liver Ablation Therapies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2024Article
- Robotic systems in interventional oncology: a narrative review of the current status.International journal of clinical oncology · 2024Review
- Navigation and Robotics in Interventional Oncology: Current Status and Future Roadmap.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Current State of Robotics in Interventional Radiology.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2023Review
- Comparison of a Robotic and Patient-Mounted Device for CT-Guided Needle Placement: A Phantom Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Starting CT-guided robotic interventional oncology at a UK centre.The British journal of radiology · 2022Article
- The comparison of the process of manual and robotic positioning of the electrode performing radiofrequency ablation under the control of a surgical navigation system.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- A closer look to the new frontier of artificial intelligence in the percutaneous treatment of primary lesions of the liver.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2020Review
- Origami Lesion-Targeting Device for CT-Guided Interventions.Journal of imaging · 2019Article
- RFA Guardian: Comprehensive Simulation of Radiofrequency Ablation Treatment of Liver Tumors.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- GPU-based RFA simulation for minimally invasive cancer treatment of liver tumours.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2017Article
- Comparison of CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Manual and CT-Guided Robotic Positioning System for In Vivo Needle Placements in Swine Liver.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2015Article
- Robotic-assisted thermal ablation of liver tumours.European radiology · 2015Article
- Evaluation of Radiation Exposure to the Patients Undergoing Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography-Guided Biopsies.Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, IndiaArticle
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Abstract
objectiveComputed tomography (CT)-compatible robots, both commercial and research-based, have been developed with the intention of increasing the accuracy of needle placement and potentially improving the outcomes of therapies in addition to reducing clinical staff and patient exposure to radiation during CT fluoroscopy. In the case of highly inaccessible lesions that require multiple plane angulations, robotically assisted needles may improve biopsy access and targeted drug delivery therapy by avoidance of the straight line path of normal linear needles.
methodsWe report our preliminary experience of performing radiofrequency ablation of the liver using a robotic-assisted CT guidance system on 11 patients (17 lesions). RESULTS/
conclusionRobotic-assisted planning and needle placement appears to have high accuracy, is technically easier than the non-robotic-assisted procedure, and involves a significantly lower radiation dose to both patient and support staff. KEY POINTS: • An early experience of robotic-assisted radiofrequency ablation is reported • Robotic-assisted RFA improves accuracy of hepatic lesion targeting • Robotic-assisted RFA makes the procedure technically easier with significant lower radiation dose.
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