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A novel method for texture-mapping conoscopic surfaces for minimally invasive image-guided kidney surgery

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Purpose

Organ-level registration is critical to image-guided therapy in soft tissue. This is especially important in organs such as the kidney which can freely move. We have developed a method for registration that combines three-dimensional locations from a holographic conoscope with an endoscopically obtained textured surface. By combining these data sources clear decisions as to the tissue from which the points arise can be made.

Methods

By localizing the conoscope’s laser dot in the endoscopic space, we register the textured surface to the cloud of conoscopic points. This allows the cloud of points to be filtered for only those arising from the kidney surface. Once a valid cloud is obtained we can use standard surface registration techniques to perform the image-space to physical-space registration. Since our methods use two distinct data sources we test for spatial accuracy and characterize temporal effects in phantoms, ex vivo porcine and human kidneys. In addition we use an industrial robot to provide controlled motion and positioning for characterizing temporal effects.

Results

Our initial surface acquisitions are hand-held. This means that we take approximately 55 s to acquire a surface. At that rate we see no temporal effects due to acquisition synchronization or probe speed. Our surface registrations were able to find applied targets with submillimeter target registration errors.

Conclusion

The results showed that the textured surfaces could be reconstructed with submillimetric mean registration errors. While this paper focuses on kidney applications, this method could be applied to any anatomical structures where a line of sight can be created via open or minimally invasive surgical techniques.

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Acknowledgments

This work is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health: Grant R01 CA162477 from the National Cancer Institute, R01 NS049251 of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and R44 DK081240 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

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  1. Medtronic Surgical Technologies, Louisville, CO, 80027, USA

    Rowena Ong

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA

    Courtenay L. Glisson, Michael Miga & Robert L. Galloway

  3. Memorial Sloan Cancer Center, New York City, NY, USA

    Amber Simpson

  4. Hannover Center of Mechatronics, Leibniz Universität Hanover, Hanover, Germany

    Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA

    Ray Lathrop & Robert J. Webster III

  6. Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA

    S. Duke Herrell

  7. MAKO Surgical, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

    Andrei Danilchenko

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The work used ex vivo kidneys obtained post-euthanasia from animals killed under IACUC-approved protocols. No human data were used.

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Ong, R., Glisson, C.L., Burgner-Kahrs, J. et al. A novel method for texture-mapping conoscopic surfaces for minimally invasive image-guided kidney surgery. Int J CARS 11, 1515–1526 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-015-1339-2

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