Microwave Ablation Assisted by a Real-Time Virtual Navigation System for Liver Cancer

Imaging-based navigation is a new technology that allows the fusion of real-time ultrasonography and preoperative positron emission tomography or computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging data. We reviewed the application of navigation system in microwave ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma. Navigation systems for ablation bring the opportunity for standardization and accuracy that extend the operator’s ability to use imaging feedback during procedures and the indications of ablation. Navigation techniques will play an important part in microwave ablation in the future, especially in the application of integrated ablation treatment plans. Such standardization should decrease the variability of practice patterns and even enable less experienced operators to deliver precise ablations.

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