High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) developer SonaCare Medical is partnering with MRI technology developer Invivo to use the firm's MRI fusion software with its Sonablate 500 prostate ablation system.
Invivo's software will fuse a preoperative MRI dataset with an intraoperative ultrasound dataset produced by SonaCare's transrectal ablation system, according to SonaCare. The image fusion expands Sonablate users' options for using MR guidance to target areas in the prostate for ablation, the company said.
