Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Researchers in Germany are taking the guesswork out of liver surgical planning through the use of advanced visualization software that can help surgeons resect more tumor while sparing healthy tissue.
That's the word this week from our Advanced Visualization Digital Community, where staff writer Eric Barnes reports on software-based advanced liver imaging applications. According to the story, German researchers have been using an investigational software package that has multiple capabilities, such as vessel segmentation, vasculature analysis, and automated calculation of liver volumes.
They've found that the software can help radiologists and surgeons deal with some of the biggest challenges to liver surgery, such as determining where to cut to spare as much healthy tissue as possible. Methods are being developed to calculate the potential risks for any given surgical margin, or the amount of healthy tissue around the tumor boundary that's resected.
The researchers are also updating preplanning images intraoperatively, conducting multidisciplinary research into radiofrequency ablation planning, and building a database to study liver regeneration.
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