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Endovascular image‐guided interventions (EIGIs)
Author(s) -
Rudin Stephen,
Bednarek Daniel R.,
Hoffmann Kenneth R.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.2821702
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , medical physics , sophistication , medical imaging , computer science , medicine , radiology , social science , psychiatry , sociology
Minimally invasive interventions are rapidly replacing invasive surgical procedures for the most prevalent human disease conditions. X‐ray image‐guided interventions carried out using the insertion and navigation of catheters through the vasculature are increasing in number and sophistication. In this article, we offer our vision for the future of this dynamic field of endovascular image‐guided interventions in the form of predictions about (1) improvements in high‐resolution detectors for more accurate guidance, (2) the implementation of high‐resolution region of interest computed tomography for evaluation and planning, (3) the implementation of dose tracking systems to control patient radiation risk, (4) the development of increasingly sophisticated interventional devices, (5) the use of quantitative treatment planning with patient‐specific computer fluid dynamic simulations, and (6) the new expanding role of the medical physicist. We discuss how we envision our predictions will come to fruition and result in the universal goal of improved patient care.