Future of IR: Emerging Techniques, Looking to the Future…and Learning from the Past

• Main Authors: Marco Midulla, Lorenzo Pescatori, Olivier Chevallier, M. Nakai, A. Ikoma, Sophie Gehin, Pierre-Emmanuel Berthod, Romaric Ne, Romaric Loffroy, Michael Dake
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ubiquity Press 2019-01-01
• Series: Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
• Subjects: Interventional Radiology; Innovation; Embolization; Interventional Oncology; Image Fusion
• Online Access: https://www.jbsr.be/articles/1727

Innovation has been the cornerstone of interventional radiology since the early years of the founders, with a multitude of new therapeutic approaches developed over the last 50 years. What is the future holding for us? This article presents an overview of the in-coming developments that are catching on at this moment, particularly focusing on three items: the new applications of existing techniques, particularly embolotherapy and interventional oncology; the cutting-edge devices; the imaging technologies at the forefront of the image-guidance. Besides this, clinical vision and patient relation remain crucial for the future of the discipline.