Britta Grüne, Ralph Burger, Dominik Bauer, Armin Schäfer, Andreas Rothfuss, Jan Stallkamp, Jens Rassweiler, Maximilian C Kriegmair, Marie-Claire Rassweiler-Seyfried
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Challenging percutaneous renal punctures to gain access to the kidney requiring guidance by cross-sectional imaging. To test the feasibility of robotic-assisted CT-guided punctures (RP) and compare them with manual laser-guided punctures (MP) with Uro Dyna-CT (Siemens Healthcare Solutions, Erlangen, Germany). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The silicon kidney phantom contained target lesions of three sizes. RP were performed using a robotic assistance system (guidoo, BEC GmbH, Pfullingen, Germany) with a robotic arm (LBR med R800, KUKA AG, Augsburg, Germany) and a navigation software with a cone-beam-CT Artis zeego (Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany)...
December 4, 2023: Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies: MITAT