Clinical Day
Chairmen: Leonard Berliner, MD (USA), Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (USA), Arthur Sung, MD (USA)
14:00 | Update in Interventional Oncology: Session 2
Advances in Treatment - Prostate and Liver - IO2
Wednesday, June 23, 2010; Hall A
Session Chair:
Arthur Sung, MD (USA), Dirk Beyersdorff, MD (D)
14:00 Technology of radio-frequency and microwave ablation
Invited Speaker: P. Morrison, Brigham and Women's Hosp., Boston, MA (USA)
14:15 Technology of cryo ablation
Invited Speaker: P. Morrison, Brigham and Women's Hosp., Boston, MA (USA)
14:30 MRI-guided robot-guided prostatic interventions
A. Goldenberg, Y. Yi, L. Ma, Engineering Services Inc., M. Sussman, W. Kucharczyk, Toronto General Hosp., U. Lindner, J. Trachtenberg, R. Weersink, M. Haider, Princess Margaret Hosp., Toronto, Ontario (CDN)
14:45 Towards high resolution image guided navigation for prostate brachytherapy
A. Schlaefer, C. Otte, R. Ansari, G. Hüttmann, L. Richter, R. Bruder, M. Heinig, M. Sommerauer, G. Kovacs, Univ. of Lübeck (D)
15:00 MRI compatibility study of a pneumatically actuated robotic system for transperineal prostate needle placement
G. Fichtinger, Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ontario (CDN), S.-E. Song, N.B. Cho, I. Iordachita, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, J. Tokuda, N. Hata, C. Tempany, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)
15:15 Non-invasive thermometry for radiofrequency ablation of the liver using computed tomography, an in-vivo animal study
G. Pandeya, M. Greuter, M. Oudkerk, Univ. Medical Center Groningen (NL), B. Schmidt, T. Flohr, Siemens AG Healthcare, Forchheim, P. Bruners, A.H. Mahnken, RWTH Aachen Univ. (D)
15:30 Liver cancer: role of tumor ablation
Invited Speaker: E. vanSonnenberg, Arizona State Univ., Phoenix, AZ (USA)