Planning and guidance: New tools to enhance the human skills in interventional oncology.

ABSTRACT

Navigation systems have the potential to achieve a high accuracy for percutaneous ablation of tumors even for those in difficult locations. In the last years, successful research has been conducted to make navigation devices applicable to percutaneous tumor ablation with special planning software that now allows high accuracy even for deep-located small lesions close to critical structures. Because of the high number of available navigation systems, this review focuses on those with preexisting clinical studies.