SlicerPET: A workflow based software module for PET/CT guided needle biopsy

11/25/2015
by   Dzenan Zukic, et al.
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Biopsy is commonly used to confirm cancer diagnosis when radiologically indicated. Given the ability of PET to localize malignancies in heterogeneous tumors and tumors that do not have a CT correlate, PET/CT guided biopsy may improve the diagnostic yield of biopsies. To facilitate PET/CT guided needle biopsy, we developed a workflow that allows us to bring PET image guidance into the interventional CT suite. In this abstract, we present SlicerPET, a user-friendly workflow based module developed using open source software libraries to guide needle biopsy in the interventional suite.

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