Urostation can be used for many different purposes according to every physician’s practice:

Mapping: Using 3D-TRUS and Organ-Based Tracking, Urostation guides and records biopsy punctures intra-operatively. The sampling (location and number of cores) is up to the physician, who may adapt every puncture according to his plan and to the previously performed punctures. That is quality management applied to urology. Training: Urostation real-time feedback on targeted prostate region has proven useful for junior physicians, but also for seniors, in the control and improvement of their biopsy sampling, patient after patient. Hence, training and assessing collaborators become easier. Targeting: Inter-series or MRI fusion allow the physician to target suspicious regions of the prostate, including the anterior part. MR-Targeted biopsy is generally performed in a second-run biopsy as an alternative to saturation biopsy, in a view to increase cancer detection probability while reducing discomfort and risks for the patient.

Urostation in ambulatory conditions, patient lying on his side.

Urostation in use in the O.R., patient in supine position under general anaesthesia.

Documentation: Prostate biopsy mapping, in 3D, associated with histological results and optionally with complementary MR imaging, is a must-have information to communicate, discuss and take decisions for every patient case with colleague urologists, with the family doctor, and with the patient himself. Treatment: Urostation multimodal biopsy mapping can be used as a precise and illustrated planning information for new strategies like active surveillance, focal or preservative treatments, for selected patients: boost brachytherapy, nerve-sparring radical surgery or HIFU, hemi-ablation by HIFU or cryo, etc. Research: The ability to map prostate biopsy or to fuse multimodality images in a repeatable manner can be used by university centers for research purposes, for example to validate prostate-specific medicine, or diagnosis imaging, etc.