ProjectMagnetoOpticTracking

Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality
Lehrstuhl für Informatikanwendungen in der Medizin & Augmented Reality

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Magneto-Optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer

Magneto-Optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer

In medical collaboration with:
Dr. Hubertus Feußner (Klinikum rechts der Isar)

Contact Person(s): Marco Feuerstein

Keywords: Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Augmented Reality

Abstract

In abdominal surgery, a laparoscopic ultrasound transducer is commonly used to detect lesions such as metastases. The determination and visualization of position and orientation of its flexible tip in relation to the patient or other surgical instruments can be of much help to (novice) surgeons utilizing the transducer intraoperatively. This difficult subject has recently been paid attention to by the scientific community. Electromagnetic tracking systems can be applied to track the flexible tip. However, the magnetic field can be distorted by ferromagnetic material.

We present a new method based on optical tracking of the laparoscope and magneto-optic tracking of the transducer, which is able to automatically detect and correct field distortions. This is used for a smooth augmentation of the B-scan images of the transducer directly on the camera images in real time.

Pictures

Figure 1: Hybrid magneto-optic tracking setup
Figure 2: Evaluation setup

Publications

2013
T. Reichl, J. Gardiazabal, N. Navab
Electromagnetic servoing - a new tracking paradigm
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1526-1535, April 2013. Available online. (bib)
T. Reichl
Advanced Hybrid Tracking and Navigation for Computer-Assisted Interventions
Dissertation. Official publication available at mediatum.ub.tum.de. (bib)
2009
M. Feuerstein, T. Reichl, J. Vogel, J. Traub, N. Navab
Magneto-Optical Tracking of Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound: Model-Based Online Detection and Correction of Magnetic Tracking Errors
IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 951-967, June 2009 (bib)
2008
M. Feuerstein, T. Reichl, J. Vogel, J. Traub, N. Navab
New Approaches to Online Estimation of Electromagnetic Tracking Errors for Laparoscopic Ultrasonography
Computer Aided Surgery, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 311-323, September 2008 (bib)
M. Feuerstein
Augmented Reality in Laparoscopic Surgery - New Concepts and Methods for Intraoperative Multimodal Imaging and Hybrid Tracking in Computer Aided Surgery
Book, ISBN 978-3-8364-7783-3, Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller. (bib)
2007
M. Feuerstein, T. Reichl, J. Vogel, A. Schneider, H. Feußner, N. Navab
Magneto-optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer for Laparoscope Augmentation
Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October/November 2007.
The original publication is available online at www.springerlink.com
(bib)
M. Feuerstein
Augmented Reality in Laparoscopic Surgery - New Concepts for Intraoperative Multimodal Imaging
PhD Thesis. The original (high-resolution) publication is available online at mediatum.ub.tum.de (bib)
T. Reichl
Online Error Correction for the Tracking of Laparoscopic Ultrasound
Diploma Thesis. Technische Universität München, July 2007 (bib)

Team

Contact Person(s)

Marco Feuerstein
Dr. Marco Feuerstein

Working Group

Armin Schneider
M.Sc. Armin Schneider
Hubertus Feussner
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Feussner
Jakob Vogel
Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Jakob Vogel
Joerg Traub
Dr. Joerg Traub
Nassir Navab
Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Tobias Reichl
Dr. Tobias Reichl

Location



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
Visit our lab at Klinikum rechts der Isar.



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