A pre- and postablation scan will be made intraprocedurally to investigate the feasibility of intraprocedural ablation verification assessment using coregistration software
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
In 20 patients, besides de regular post-RFA scan, a pre-RFA contrast enhanced dual phase CT-scan will be acquired to investigate the feasibility of quantitative ablation assessment.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Feasibility of the use of co-registration software (>80%)
The proportion of patients in whom reliable co-registration of pre- and post-ablation CT images is feasible
Time frame: 1 year
Inter and intra-observer variability
Inter- and intraobserver variability of CT-CT co-registration of determining the minimum ablation margin after thermal ablation for liver tumors
Time frame: 1 year
The time that is required for CT-CT co-registration
The time that is required for CT-CT co-registration
Time frame: 1 year
Quantitatively assessed ablation margin
Percentage of local recurrence per group as categorized according to ablation margin: \<0mm, 0-5mm, \>5mm
Time frame: 1 year
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