Vascular urologic emergencies: image-guided interventions

Pediatric urologic emergencies and urgencies.

The more common urologic problems seen in infancy and childhood that require urgent or emergent pediatric urologic referral are discussed, including a brief description of the usual presenting signs or symptoms, differential diagnoses, proper diagnostic work-up recommended before or at the time of referral, and the usual therapeutic course of management after evaluation by the urologist. These ...

Image Guided Surgical Interventions

urgeons have traditionally performed procedures to treat diseases by aining direct access to the internal structures involved, and using direct isual inspection to diagnose and treat the defects. Much effort has gone nto identifying the most appropriate incisions and approaches to enable ull access inside body cavities, specific organs, or musculoskeletal tructures. Imaging has traditionally be...

Ultrasonic image analysis and image-guided interventions.

The fields of medical image analysis and computer-aided interventions deal with reducing the large volume of digital images (X-ray, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography and ultrasound (US)) to more meaningful clinical information using software algorithms. US is a core imaging modality employed in these areas, both in its own right and used in conj...

Conference on Image - Guided Interventions & Fokus Neuroradiologie 3 rd Conference on Image - Guided Interventions

Overview and History of Image-Guided Interventions

Although the routine use of image-guided intervention (IGI) is only about 20 years old, it grew out of stereotactic neurosurgical techniques that have a much longer history. This chapter introduces stereotactic techniques and discusses the evolution of image-guided surgical techniques enabled by the introduction of modern imaging modalities, computers, and tracking devices. Equally important in...