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In an effort to reduce morbidity of cardiac interventions, minimizing invasiveness inevitably leads to limited visual access to the surgical targets. To address these limitations, we provide the surgeons with a robust visualization environment that integrates interventional ultrasound imaging augmented with pre-operative anatomical models and virtual surgical instruments within a virtual reality environment. Here we present an in vitro study on a cardiac phantom that mimics an ablation therapy procedure, which allows us to assess the feasibility of our surgical system in comparison to traditional intra-operative ultrasound imaging. Following surgical target identification via an electro-anatomical model, the “ablation procedure” is performed blindly. A 2.8 mm RMS targeting error is achieved using our novel surgical system. This level of accuracy is adequate from both a clinical and engineering perspective, under the inherent procedure requirements and limitations of the system.
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Linte, C.A., Wiles, A., Moore, J., Wedlake, C., Peters, T.M. (2008). Virtual Reality-Enhanced Ultrasound Guidance for Atrial Ablation: In vitro Epicardial Study. In: Metaxas, D., Axel, L., Fichtinger, G., Székely, G. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2008. MICCAI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85990-1_77
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