Percutaneous C-Arm Free O-Arm Navigated Biopsy for Spinal Pathologies: A Technical Note.

Masato TanakaSumeet SonawaneKoji UotaniYoshihiro FujiwaraKittipong SessumpunTaro YamauchiShinsuke Sugihara

Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)

C-arm free O-arm navigated biopsy is an effective technique for obtaining sufficient material from spine pathologies. Tissue from an exact pathological site can be obtained with 3-D images. This new O-arm navigation biopsy may provide an alternative to repeat CT-guided or open biopsy.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
fine needle aspiration
minimally invasive
spinal cord
magnetic resonance imaging
deep learning
optical coherence tomography
spinal cord injury
convolutional neural network
image quality
positron emission tomography