Publications
The Perk Station: Portable training station for percutaneous interventions.
Orthopaedic Care Conference.
U-Thainual2008a.pdf (47.99 KB)
(2008). 
Pneumatically operated MRI-compatible needle placement robot for prostate interventions.
Procedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2008. 2489–2495.
Fischer2008a.pdf (883.4 KB)
(2008). 
Registered ultrasound and fluoroscopy for intraoperative dynamic dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy.
Brachytherapy. 7, 102 - 102.
Song2008.pdf (42.17 KB)
(2008). 
Registered Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy for Intraoperative Dynamic Dosimetry in Prostate Brachytherapy.
Workshop on Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs.
(2008). Robotic Assistance for Ultrasound Guided Prostate Brachytherapy.
Workshop on Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs.
(2008). Robotic assistance for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy.
Medical Image Analysis. 12, 535.
Fichtinger2008b.pdf (1.12 MB)
(2008). 
Robotic needle positioner for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy.
Brachytherapy. 7, 176 - 176.
Song2008a.pdf (45.96 KB)
(2008). 
A System for Performance Analysis of Surgeon Dexterity in Percutaneous Needle-based Interventions.
7th Imaging Symposium of the Imaging Network of Ontario.
(2008). A Training Suite for Image Overlay and Other Needle Insertion Techniques.
2008 MICCAI Workshop - Augmented Environments for Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Surgery (AMI-ARCS).
Fischer2008c.pdf (469.78 KB)
(2008). 
C-arm based Intra-operative Dosimetry in Prostate Brachytherapy.
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
(2007). Design and preliminary accuracy studies of an MRI-guided transrectal prostate intervention system.
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI). 10, 59–67.
Krieger2007a.pdf (1.41 MB)
(2007). 
Development of an image-guided robot for small animal research.
Journal of Computer Aided Surgery. 12, 357–365.
Kazanzides2007.pdf (816.37 KB)
(2007). 
Dynamic MRI scan plane control for passive tracking of instruments and devices.
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI). 10, 50–58.
DiMaio2007.pdf (3.16 MB)
(2007). 
Early Results of a Feasibility Study of Registered Fluoroscopy and Ultrasound for Permanent Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy.
49th Annual Meeting of American Association of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
(2007). Early Results of a Feasibility Study of Registered Fluoroscopy and Ultrasound for Permanent Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy.
Innovative Minds in Prostate Cancer Today - IMPaCT.
(2007). Intra-operative 3D guidance in prostate brachytherapy using a non-isocentric C-arm.
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI). 10, 9–17.
Jain2007.pdf (3.49 MB)
(2007). 
Intra-operative dosimetry optimization of TRUS-guided prostate brachytherapy requires localization of seeds relative to the prostate.
Innovative Minds in Prostate Cancer Today - IMPaCT.
(2007). Phantom Experiments with a Novel MR-Guided Transrectal Prostate Interventional System.
International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
Krieger2007.pdf (89.24 KB)
(2007). 
Robotic assistance for ultrasound guided prostate brachytherapy.
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). 4791, 119–127.
Fichtinger2007c.pdf (3.85 MB)
(2007). 
Robotic Assistance for Ultrasound Guided Prostate Brachytherapy.
The Fourth AdMeTech Foundation Conference: Ending the Era of Blind Cancer Care & Creating a Future of Image-Guided, Minimally Invasive Diagnosis & Treatment.
(2007). Robotic assistant for transperineal prostate interventions in 3T closed MRI.
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI). 10, 425–433.
Fischer2007b.pdf (1.22 MB)
(2007). 
Accuracy of Hybrid Tracking for a Novel MR-Guided Transrectal Prostate Interventional Device.
6th Interventional MRI Symposium. 143-145.
(2006). Bootstrapped ultrasound calibration.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 119, 61–66.
(2006). Design of a Prostate Needle Placement Robot in MRI Scanner.
IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics.
DiMaio2006c.pdf (7.09 MB)
(2006). 
Design of a Robot for Transperineal Prostate Needle Placement in MRI Scanner.
Procedings IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics. 592–597.
Fischer2006d.pdf (7.09 MB)
(2006). 