Thermal ablation presents important advantages with respect to alternative therapeutic options, but the lack of haptic feedback during ablative treatments remains a major drawback. As a consequence, clinical interventions commonly result in a high number of undesired outcomes. In this thesis, we investigate on the feasibility of using optoacoustics, to provide real-time feedback during thermal ablation. The experimental results demonstrate optoacoustics as a real-time feedback tool providing quantitative readings of the critical ablation parameters.
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Thermal ablation presents important advantages with respect to alternative therapeutic options, but the lack of haptic feedback during ablative treatments remains a major drawback. As a consequence, clinical interventions commonly result in a high number of undesired outcomes. In this thesis, we investigate on the feasibility of using optoacoustics, to provide real-time feedback during thermal ablation. The experimental results demonstrate optoacoustics as a real-time feedback tool providing qua...
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