Retrospective Study in 40 Patients of Utility of C-arm FDCT as an Adjunctive Modality in Technically Challenging Image-Guided Percutaneous Drainage Procedures

Abstract

C-arm FDCT is useful as an adjunctive modality in the interventional suite for technically challenging percutaneous drainage procedures by providing sufficient anatomic detail. Complications of catheter misplacement can be avoided if C-arm FDCT is used prior to tract dilatation. If C-arm FDCT image quality of needle and/or wire placement is poor, conventional CT guidance is recommended.

Percutaneous transthoracic localization of pulmonary nodules under C-arm cone-beam CT virtual navigation guidance

“…Recently, CBCT and CBCT virtual navigation systems have been increasingly used in various fields of radiologic interventional procedures (24)(25)(26). CBCT-guided, or CBCT virtual navigation-guided PTNB have been reported to provide very excellent and, at least, equivalent diagnostic accuracy to state-of-the-art CTF-guided PTNB (11,12,27).…”