Patent for prostatic intervention

Recently a US patent has been issued on prostatic interventions with patent number 8,521,257. This patent is as a result of hard work of Axel Kriger and late Robert Susil who was the former PhD student of Dr. Atalar. This device allows access to prostate while patient is inside an MRI scanner enabling prostatic interventions such as needle biopsy. The patent has been assigned to the Johns Hopkins University.