Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation

Umihira Co., Ltd.

Osamu Ukimura

Kazuo Umihira

Kazumi Kamoi

Keizou Ogino

Koji Okihara

A medical image guidance marker to be placed in a biological tissue for tomographic image guidance, wherein the medical image guidance marker is made of an alloy with a magnetic susceptibility of −13 ppm to −5 ppm and has a shape of a coil, the coil is formed of a wire with a wire diameter of not less than 0.15 mm and not more than 0.45 mm and has a coil diameter of not less than 0.55 mm and not more than 1.20 mm, and the pitch of the coil is not less than 0.3 mm and not more than 1.5 mm and is not less than 1.8 times and not more than 4 times the wire diameter.

Medical image guidance marker

A tissue dividing jig includes a tissue dividing base; and a cutting blade set provided with a cutting blade member and a guide portion, the tissue dividing base and the cutting blade set have a positioning mechanism that fixes their positions mutually, the cutting blade member is provided with a cutting blade extending in a longitudinal direction of the tissue placement portion, the guide portion guides the cutting blade member to move the cutting blade member to a fixed position on the tissue dividing base, and the cutting blade is disposed such that when the cutting blade set is disposed at a predetermined position on the tissue dividing base by the positioning mechanism and the cutting blade member is moved using the guide portion, the cutting blade divides the needle biopsy tissue on the tissue placement portion in the longitudinal direction.

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Kyoto, Japan

Osamu Ukimura