Kitware of Clifton Park, NY, has received a one-year grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for $228,000 to improve the clinical effectiveness of liver lesion biopsy using PET/CT imaging.
The grant will help the company develop its open-source Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) by enabling the fusion of motion-corrected PET images with CT images for liver lesion biopsy.
The main focus of the project will be the development of a respiratory motion correction technique aimed at producing more effective PET/CT-guided biopsies. The technology would display motion-corrected, fused, and side-by-side PET and CT images for interventional radiologists to view.
Kitware will collaborate with Kevin Cleary, MD, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, to develop some of the components and clinical evaluation of the system.
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