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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2008
Steven Dean Miller, Grass Valley, CA (US);
Jasjit S. Suri, Roseville, CA (US);
Steven Dean Miller, Grass Valley, CA (US);
Jasjit S. Suri, Roseville, CA (US);
Eigen, Inc., Grass Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems are provided for managing, planning and displaying the location of biopsy core sites across multiple same-patient visits or other stored biopsy plans to increase the confidence and accuracy of biopsy results. The systems may allow the operator to fuse multiple predefined and/or automatically generated biopsy core site plans in addition to previous biopsy sites with a current prostate image to assist in creating a final new biopsy core site plan. Further, the system may allow the operator to selectively view singular parts of the final plan to simplify the planning process. Further, the systems may assist the operator during the navigation phase of the biopsy by hiding biopsy core sites from the final plan that are not of immediate interest during the biopsy phase and thereby reducing clutter and distraction during biopsy sample acquisition.