October 5, 2011 — A study from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, is challenging a widely held assumption that interventional procedures guided by computed tomography fluoroscopy (CTF) expose ...

Injection of local anesthetic into part of the trigeminal nerve under fluoroscopic guidance is being used to treat migraine and other headaches. A new study showed that numbing the sphenopalatine ...

In the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule of the Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) bundled fluoroscopic guidance into epidural injections and stated that ...

Welcome to Radiation protection in fluoroscopy guided interventional procedures!This course consists of six webinars organized by the IAEA in the period of 2016-2019. Each webinar is addressing a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO, Fla. — Evidence of the effectiveness and safety of CT-guided, lumbar transforaminal injection of ...

In recent years, minimally invasive medical interventions performed under fluoroscopy and other types of imaging guidance have been extensively replacing the open surgery for many medical ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of scout views as an adjunct tool in CT-guided intervention. Therefore, different devices used for interventional procedures were assigned to three ...

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The advent of optical (i.e. laparoscopy, cystoscopy) and fluoroscopic (i.e. X-ray) imaging made possible the development of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, allowing surgeons ...

Fluoroscopy-free RIRS is successful in some cases, but fluoroscopy should remain available for unexpected intraoperative challenges. In a randomized controlled trial, a fluoroscopy-free technique for ...