Diagnosis of breast cancer at its earliest stage affords women the best prognosis. The role of the breast imager has evolved from cancer screening and detection to now include diagnosis and management with the widespread adoption of image-guided core biopsy. This article will briefly discuss the current imageguided biopsy techniques for the diagnosis of suspicious breast findings, specifically,...

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Image-guided prostate biopsy in a 0.5-T open scanner is described, validated in phantom studies, and employed in two patients. The needles are guided by fast gradient recall and T2-weighted fast spin echo images. Surgical navigation software provided T2-weighted images that were critical in targeting the peripheral zone and the tumor. MR imaging can be used to guide pros...

Ultrasound guided intervention has become the preferred method to diagnose primary neoplasms and suspected metastatic disease. With developments in technology and changes in practice patterns, the types of referrals for ultrasound guided intervention will evolve. The purpose of this review is to highlight a variety of new or relatively new aspects of image guided biopsy and to focus on areas of...

Percutaneous image-guided biopsy of renal masses is a safe and accurate procedure. Although once reserved for the diagnosis of unresectable renal cell carcinoma, metastases, lymphoma, and infection, today percutaneous image-guided biopsy has an expanded role. There is increasing awareness that a substantial proportion of small, solid renal masses are benign neoplasms. Although imaging can be us...

CONTEXT Prostate biopsy (PB) represents the gold standard method to confirm the presence of cancer. In addition to traditional random or systematic approaches, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided technique has been introduced recently. OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic review of complications after transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided, transperineal, and MRI-guided PB. EVIDENCE ACQUIS...

background: the aim of this work was to study the feasibility of constructing a fast thorax model suitable for simulating lung motion due to respiration using only one ct dataset. materials and methods: for each of six patients with different thorax sizes, two sets of ct images were obtained in single-breath-hold inhale and exhale stages in the supine position. the ct images were then analyzed ...

background and objectives:breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. fine needle aspiration biopsy (fnab) is one of the methods of breast biopsy which is fast, easy and cost effective. the aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance rate between pathologic results of sonography or stereotaxy guided fnab and guided core needle biopsy (cnb) in the evaluation of breast le...