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The University of Arkansas, along with the Harvard University and John Hopkins University, invented a virtual system.
About
The device is intended to provide a virtual biopsy in tissue's holes that are created for other therapeutic purposes.
Key Benefits
1. Efficient MR Imaging involvement 2. Access to body regions that are otherwise difficult to reach
Applications
* The device is intended to provide a virtual biopsy in tissue's holes that are created for other therapeutic purposes. Examples for such therapeutic purposes include interstitial radiation therapy (brachytherapy) and (actual) biopsy. * The device can be used as an aid in performing theranostics, namely the trial of a variety of methods to detect, evaluate, and treat a given medical condition. Examples include trial of chemical and biologic substances to treat a cancer, trial of agents to reduce acute and chronic pain, and trial of agents to test response of tissue to genetically targeted agents. The advantages of the device would be that (i) the time required for the imaging to be performed would be short, providing a fast report, (ii) the time for the agent to enter the tissue (via diffusion or perfusion) would be short (iii) the therapy is highly localized, so that reduced doses of the agent are needed, which may have reduced (or insignificant) side effects.