{"doi":"10.1117/1.jmi.12.2.025002","title":"Acoustic reflector-enabled forward-viewing ultrasound image-guided access","abstract":"Purpose: Existing ultrasound (US) image-guided needle access methods applied in various surgical procedures (such as percutaneous nephrolithotomy) face the challenge of keeping the needle tip visible during the insertion process due to the unguaranteed alignment between the US image and needle. We propose a needle insertion mechanism with reflector-integrated US imaging, where the US image plane and the needle are mechanically aligned, and the needle is inserted in a forward-viewing style to provide more intuitive access. Approach: beef tissue. Needle access accuracy was evaluated using point targets embedded in gelatin, and errors between the needle tip and point targets are estimated from X-ray images. Results: tissue, and its visibility was quantified using a signal-to-noise ratio. Needle access results showed an average insertion error of less than 3 mm. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate the clinical potential of the reflector-enabled forward-viewing US image-guided access mechanism.","journal":"Journal of Medical Imaging","year":2025,"id":563977,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.958,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":889208,"name":"Ashiqur Rahaman","orcid":"0000-0002-4724-2205","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1467166,"name":"Araceli B. Gonzalez","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1467167,"name":"Issac Abouaf","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1466815,"name":"Aditya Malik","orcid":"0000-0003-3448-7577","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1147654,"name":"Igor Sorokin","orcid":"0000-0001-5472-9807","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":377269,"name":"Haichong K. Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-1314-8456","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":735185,"name":"Yichuan Tang","orcid":"0000-0003-1681-5944","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":29,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:56:17.117043Z","pmid":"40213618","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}