Bijbelhandschriften uit Qumran en elders bij de Dode Zee

Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

Provenance, Profile and Purpose of the Greek Joshua

Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

A New Spirit in an Old Corpus? Text-Critical, Literary-Critical and Linguistic Observations regarding Ezekiel 36:16-38

Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

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Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

Joshua (Old Testament Guides)

The Hebrew Bible and its Ancient Version

Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism in Joshua 1:7 (MT and LXX)

Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

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Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

De brontekst(en) voor de boeken van het Oude Testament

Antiquity (Religious Texts and Tradition in Antiquity

Een perspectiefgerichte benadering van het vakgebied Levensbeschouwing en Religie

Religious Studie

Assessing the value of volume navigation during ultrasound-guided radiofrequency- and microwave-ablations of liver lesions

Purpose: The goal of our study was to determine the influence of ultrasound (US)-coupled volume navigation on the use of computed tomography (CT) during minimally-invasive radiofrequency and microwave ablation procedures of liver lesions.Method: Twenty-five patients with 40 liver lesions of different histological origin were retrospectively analysed. Lesions were ablated following standard protocol, using 1) conventional US-guidance, 2) manual registered volume navigation (mVNav), 3) automatic registered (alpha VNav) or 4) CT-guidance. In case of ultrasonographically inconspicuous lesions, conventional US-guidance was abandoned and mVNav was used. If mVNav was also unsuccessful, the procedure was either continued with alpha VNav or CT-guidance. The number, size and location of the lesions targeted using the different approaches were documented.Results: Of the 40 lesions, sixteen (40.0 %) could be targeted with conventional US-guidance only, sixteen (40.0 %) with mVNav, three (7.5 %) with aVNav and five (12.5 %) only through the use of CT-guidance. Of the three alternatives (mVNav, alpha VNav and CT only) the mean size of the lesions targeted using mVNav (9.1 +/- 4.6 mm) was significantly smaller from those targeted using US-guidance only (20.4 +/- 9.4 mm; p < 0.001). The location of the lesions did not influence the selection of the modality used to guide the ablation.Conclusions: In our cohort, mVNav allowed the ablation procedure to become less dependent on the use of CT. mVNav supported the ablation of lesions smaller than those that could be ablated with US only and doubled the application of minimally-invasive US-guided ablations.Cardiovascular Aspects of Radiolog