MRI-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy in Neuro-Oncology: A Review of Its Current Clinical Applications

摘要: Magnetic resonance imaging-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive treatment modality with recent increasing use to ablate brain tumors. When originally introduced in the late 1980s, inability precisely monitor and control ablation limited adoption of LITT neuro-oncology. Popularized as means destroying malignant hepatic renal metastatic lesions percutaneously, its selective tumor destruction preservation adjacent normal tissues have since been optimized for The progress made real-time imaging MRI, probe design, computer algorithms predictive tissue kill has led resurgence interest Current systems offer surgical option some inoperable We discuss origins, principles, current indications, future directions MRI-guided