Multi-mode information fusion navigation system for robot-assisted vascular interventional surgery.

Journal: BMC surgery
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive vascular intervention (MIVI) is a powerful technique for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and aortic dissection (AD). Navigation of traditional MIVI surgery mainly relies only on 2D digital subtraction angiography (DSA) images, which is hard to observe the 3D morphology of blood vessels and position the interventional instruments. The multi-mode information fusion navigation system (MIFNS) proposed in this paper combines preoperative CT images and intraoperative DSA images together to increase the visualization information during operations.

Authors

  • Shaoya Guan
    School of Engineers, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China.
  • Tianqi Li
    College of Veterinary Medicine, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; Key Laboratory of the Provincial Education, Department of Heilongjiang for Common Animal Disease Prevention and Treatment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
  • Cai Meng
    School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
  • Limei Ma
    School of Engineers, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China. malimei@bipt.edu.cn.