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Robot-Assisted Prostate Biopsy With a Novel Ultrasound Probe

NCT07271017 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-12-08

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Summary

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most diagnosed type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among US men, and its incidence has increased steadily in the last decade. Efforts to address the rise in PCa diagnosis without overdetection and overtreatment include targeted biopsy techniques for clinically significant PCa using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and precision targeted biopsy guided by ultrasound and fused to the MRI.

The study aims to improve prostate biopsy with a novel ultrasound probe and robot developed at Johns Hopkins, the ProBot device. The trial is a Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the new device.

ProBot is an entirely new concept including a novel ultrasound probe and robot kinematics specifically designed for the prostate. It operates with only two degrees of freedom configured such that the motions for 3D image scanning and biopsy may not deform the prostate gland, thus improving the accuracy of MRI-ultrasound fusion and needle targeting at biopsy.

ProBot is a small and lightweight robot (1.3Kg including the ultrasound probe). It allows hands-free operation of its ultrasound probe at 3D image scanning and needle targeting supervised by the urologist.

In addition to MRI-targeted biopsy (TB), at systematic biopsy (SB), instead of using the common template plan that is the same for all patients, the innovative software optimizes the plan for each patient to obtain a diagnosis that is representative of the whole gland histology. The ProBot robot is also uniquely capable of transrectal (TR) and transperineal (TP) biopsy.

The aims of the study are to determine the safety and feasibility of the new device at TR and TP biopsies.

Conditions

  • Prostate Cancer (Diagnosis)

Interventions

DEVICE

Prostate biopsy

Precision personalized prostate biopsy with a novel ultrasound probe and robot, ProBot

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Misop Han, MD · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-23
Primary Completion
2030-05-31
Completion
2030-05-31
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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