Technology of Ultrasound-Guided Therapy
Fig. 10.1 An example of B-mode ultrasound image of the liver with an enhancing mass Ultrasound transducers are available in a wide variety of form factors and frequency ranges. Standard…
Image-Guided Neurosurgical Planning
Fig. 37.1 T2 MRI (a), slice segmentation (b) and resulting three-dimensional reconstruction of left frontal glioma (c) Therefore, exact segmentation of tumor boundaries is practically not possible with current imaging…
Progress in Neurosurgical Robotics
Fig. 46.1 (a) Screenshot of the neuroArm human-machine interface showing the integration of 3D magnetic resonance images with surgical planning (blue cone) and robotic tools (blue and off-white) to target…
Innovations in Ultrasound Instrumentation for Image Guidance
Fig. 11.1 (a) A 16 × 16 2-D CMUT array flip-chip bonded on the first-generation custom front-end integrated circuit. (b) The synthetic aperture 3-D image of a wire phantom. (c) A 16 × 16…
3D Slicer: A Platform for Subject-Specific Image Analysis, Visualization, and Clinical Support
Fig. 19.1 This figure slows the geographic distribution and cumulative number of partial and full downloads of Slicer 4 in early spring 2012. 3D Slicer has a large number of…
Image-Guided Brachytherapy
Fig. 26.1 (a) A 125I radioactive implant using sources in suture material is stitched into an absorbable mesh to simplify placement of radioactive sources in the tumor bed after resection…
MRI-Compatible C-Arm Imaging for Cardiac Intervention
Fig. 53.1 Three hybrid X-ray/MRI (XMR) system concepts. (a) First-generation XMR system. (b) Truly hybrid XMR system. (c) Closed-bore (CBXMR) system XMR System Requirements Table 53.1 lists the X-ray system…
Image-Guided Robotics in Minimally Invasive Therapies
Fig. 31.1 MRI-compatible robot developed for 0.5-T open-configuration MRI scanner (Figure courtesy of Dr. Kiyoyuki Chinzei, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) Surgical Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided…
Computational Support for Intraoperative Imaging and IGT
Fig. 4.1 The skull is shown by simple thresholding of CT volume (left); prostate segmentation from TRUS vibro-elastography volume (center); and a mandible segmentation from a curved CT cross section…
Real-Time and Interactive MRI
Fig. 13.1 Nine different k-space sampling strategies. (a) Single k-space line per shot with a Cartesian trajectory. (b) Single-shot EPI sampling trajectory. (c) Multi-shot, interleaved EPI trajectory. (d) Single-shot RARE…
