ProjectEDEN2020

EDEN2020: Enhanced Delivery Ecosystem for Neurosurgery In medical collaboration with: Prof. Lorenzo Bello In academic collaboration with: Prof. Dr. Sarthak Misra Dr. Rodriguez y Baena Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab Contact Person(s): Dr. Thomas Wendler In industrial collaboration with: Renishaw plc. XoGraph ltd.

Keywords: Registration / Visualization, Medical Imaging, Ultrasound, Computer-Aided Surgery, Computer-aided Interventions, Sensing, IFL

Abstract

EDEN2020 (Enhanced Delivery Ecosystem for Neurosurgery) aims to develop the gold standard for one-stop diagnosis and treatment of brain disease by delivering an integrated technology platform for minimally invasive neurosurgery. A team of first-class industrial partners (Renishaw plc. and XoGraph ltd.), leading clinical oncological neurosurgery team (Università di Milano, San Raffaele and Politecnico di Milano) lead by Prof. Lorenzo Bello and the involvement of leading experts in shape sensing (Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Sarthak Misra The project is coordinated by Dr. Rodriguez y Baena, Imperial College London. His team provides the core technology for the envisioned system, the bendable robotic needle. During the course of EDEN2020 this interdisciplinary team will work on the integration of 5 key concepts, namely (1) pre-operative MRI and diffusion-MRI imaging, (2) intra-operative ultrasounds, (3) robotic assisted catheter steering, (4) brain diffusion modelling, and (5) a robotics assisted neurosurgical robotic product (the Neuromate), into a pre-commercial prototype which meets the pressing demand for better and less invasive neurosurgery. Our chair will be focusing on the imaging components (i.e. (1) and (2)), targeting the realtime compensation of tissue movement and accurate localization of the flexible catheters at hand. We will further extend the findings of FP7 ACTIVE, in which we successfully combined pre-operative MRI with intra-operative US through deformable 3D-2D registration, making us most qualified for this role.

Pictures

Figure 1: Conceptual impression of the system emerging from EDEN2020.

Figure 2: Overview of the planned EDEN2020 project activities. The topics TUM will focus on are marked at the top.

Team

Contact Person(s)

Dr. Thomas Wendler

Working Group

M.Sc. Ardit Ramadani

Dr. Thomas Wendler

Alumni

Dr. Christoph Hennersperger

Julia Rackerseder

M.Sc. Rüdiger Göbl

Location

Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik / I16 Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching bei München Tel.: +49 89 289-17058 Fax: +49 89 289-17059

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Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitüt München Ismaninger Str. 22 81675 München IFL Lab - Room: 01.3a-c Tel.: +49 89 4140-6457 Fax: +49 89 4140-6458

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