Liver

Assessing Tissue Damage Around a Tape Spring Steerable Needle With Sharp Turn Radii

Assessing Tissue Damage Around a Tape Spring Steerable Needle With Sharp Turn Radii 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Steerable needles are a novel technology that offers a wide range of uses in medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Currently, there exist several steerable needle designs in the literature, however, they… read more

Simulation of Image-Guided Microwave Ablation Therapy Using a Digital Twin Computational Model

Simulation of Image-Guided Microwave Ablation Therapy Using a Digital Twin Computational Model 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Emerging computational tools such as healthcare digital twin modeling are enabling the creation of patient-specific surgical planning, including microwave ablation to treat primary and secondary liver cancers. Healthcare digital twins… read more

Ultrasound Based Planning and Navigation for Non-Anatomical Liver Resections – An Ex-Vivo Study

Author(s)3: Daniel Candinas, Raluca-Maria Sandu, Federico Storni, Stefan Weber, Gian Andrea Prevost, Iwan Paolucci, Anja Lachenmayer, Luca Sahli
Ultrasound Based Planning and Navigation for Non-Anatomical Liver Resections – An Ex-Vivo Study 820 615 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Non-anatomical resections of liver tumors can be very challenging as the surgeon cannot use anatomical landmarks on the liver surface or in the ultrasound image for guidance. This makes it…

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