Heat surgery system monitored by real-time magnetic resonance te

Details Heat surgery system monitored by real-time magnetic resonance te Heat surgery system monitored by real-time magnetic resonance te

1993-12-08

1994-07-12

Smith, Ruth S.

Surgery

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Pad

128736, 607 89, 607 93, 607 97, 601 4, A61B 5055

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053278844

ABSTRACT:
Surgery is performed with a pulsed heat-producing device that selectively heats a region in a specific tissue within a patient destroying the tissue. The pulsed heat-producing device may be a coherent optical source that is guided by laser fiber to the tissue to be destroyed. In another embodiment, the pulsed heat-producing device is a focussed ultrasound transducer which concentrates ultrasonic energy at a focal point within the specific tissue. A magnetic resonance imaging system employing a real-time temperature-sensitive pulse sequence monitors the heated region of the tissue to provide temperature profiles allowing an operator to alter the position and size of the heated region.

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