INSTRUMENTATION

• Rectal protection with a silicone insulating device during prostate cryosurgery: study in a canine model (DM Zapzalka, JH Hulbert, MF Hoey, N MerryTC -Bischof)

• Dynamic cryosurgery: creating a more potent iceball with the use of thermal waves (JC Rewcastle, GA Sandison, JC Saliken, JG McKinnon, BJ Donnelly)

• Formable and flexible cryoprobes for internal medicine: an update (P LePivert)

• X-ray CT: an attractive alternative for monitoring iceball growth (GA Sandison, JC Rewcastle, LJ Hahn)

• Concept of technical requirements for cryosurgical equipment (NN Korpan, JV Zharkov, G Hochwarter, R Sacher, R. Kaitna, W Gardowsky)

• New cryosurgical devices for cryolesion of tumors and pain elimination (Dr. sc. nat. Ralf Herzog, R Herzog, A Binneberg, H Buschmann, B Schumann, U Eckelt, L PaBler, A Raschke, K Ullmann, S Matthes, E Sporl)

• Development of ultrasonic devices for monitoring and optimization of cryosurgical procedures (A Rikberg, E Bakay, S Yesman, A Baritsky, M Baglayev, V Trushina)

• 3D Ultrasound Use During Cryosurgery (Gary Onik, Boris Rubinsky)

• New Methods for Monitoring Cryosurgery, Light Imaging (David Otten, David Benaron, Boris Rubinsky)

• Simulation of prostate cryoablation (J Jankun, M Jankun, TJ Kelly, S Selman)

• New Methods for Monitoring Cryosurgery, MRI (Boris Rubinsky Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA)

• Instrumentation: A Personal Overview (Franco Lugnani - Fabrizio Zanconati)