Image-guided therapy systems [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction : Diagnosis and Therapy -- 1. Diagnosis and Therapy : History, Current Status, and Future Directions / Vesna Zderic and Shahram Vaezy -- 2. Medical Imaging / Orpheus Kolokythas, Dean K. Shibata, and Theodore J. Dubinsky -- Part II. Interventional Therapy Modalities -- 3. Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Surgery and Intraluminal Endoscopy : Videoscopic-Guided Therapy Systems / Allan Haynes and Mika Sinanan -- 4. Image-Guided Radiation Therapy : From Concept to Practice / E. Ishmael Parsai, Michael C. Dobelbower, and Ralph R. Dobelbower -- 5. Radiofrequency Ablation / Dieter Haemmerich -- 6. Microwave Ablation / Christos S. Georgiades and Jean-Francois Geschwind -- 7. Lasers and Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) in Imaging and Therapy / Keyvan Moghissi and Mark Stringer -- 8. Image-Guided Cryotherapy : An Emphasis on Liver Tumors / David F. Schaeffer and Charles H. Scudamore -- 9. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery / Arjun Sahgal [and others] -- 10. Ultrasound Mediated Drug and Gene Delivery / Victor Frenkel -- 11. Therapeutic Hyperthermia / Riadh Habash -- Part III Image-Guided Therapy -- 12. Image-Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound / David Goertz, Rajiv Chopra, and Kullervo Hynynen -- 13. 3D Visualization and Guidance / Daniel F. Leotta -- 14. Optical Coherence Tomography / Jason Zara -- 15. Advanced Cardiac Imaging for Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Arrhythmias / Matthew Kay and Marco Mercader -- 16. Percutaneous Image-Guided Needle-Based Procedures / Orpheus Kolokythas and Bill H. Warren -- 17. Robotic Radical Prostatectomy : History, Present, and Future / Fernando J. Bianco, Jr. -- 18. Modeling of Image-Guided Therapy / Isaac A. Chang and T. Joshua Pfefer -- 19. The Socioeconomic Benefits of Image-Guided Therapies / Arthur H. Chan.

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Here's a cutting-edge resource tha provides a global survey of the rapidly growing field of image-guided therapy. You find detailed coverage of a wide range of key topics, from MRI-guided surgery, robotic cardiac surgery, and brachytherapy and hyperthermia for cancer treatment ... to modern procedures in neurosurgery, laser cosmetic therapy, and ultrasound-guided high intensity focused ultrasound therapy for non-invasive tumor treatment. You learn the fundamentals of imaging and therapeutic modalities and their capabilities and constraints in implementation of image-guided therapy systems. Publisher abstract.

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