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Abstract #1839

Fast Preoperative Planning Method for MR-Guided Laser Ablation in Brain

Erol Yeniaras1, David T. A. Fuentes2, Samuel J. Fahrenholtz1, Jeffrey S. Weinberg3, Florian Maier1, Anil Shetty4, John D. Hazle1, R. Jason Stafford1

1Imaging Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 2Imaging Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 3Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 4Visualase, Inc, Houston, TX, United States


In this work we introduce a new computational methodology and for minimally-invasive MR-guided laser-induced thermal therapy for brain tumors. We also evaluate the viability of the steady-state method on real human data retrospectively.