Prostate brachytherapy seed localization using a mobile C-arm without tracking

Maria S. Ayad; Junghoon Lee; Jerry L. Prince; Gabor Fichtinger

doi:10.1117/12.811225

13 March 2009 Prostate brachytherapy seed localization using a mobile C-arm without tracking

Maria S. Ayad, Junghoon Lee, Jerry L. Prince, Gabor Fichtinger

Proceedings Volume 7261, Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 72611K (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811225
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

The success of prostate brachytherapy depends on the faithful delivery of a dose plan. In turn, intraoperative localization and visualization of the implanted radioactive brachytherapy seeds enables more proficient and informed adjustments to the executed plan during therapy. Prior work has demonstrated adequate seed reconstructions from uncalibrated mobile c-arms using either external tracking devices or image-based fiducials for c-arm pose determination. These alternatives are either time-consuming or interfere with the clinical flow of the surgery, or both. This paper describes a seed reconstruction approach that avoids both tracking devices and fiducials. Instead, it uses the preoperative dose plan in conjunction with a set of captured images to get initial estimates of the c-arm poses followed by an auto-focus technique using the seeds themselves as fiducials to refine the pose estimates. Intraoperative seed localization is achieved through iteratively solving for poses and seed correspondences across images and reconstructing the 3D implanted seeds. The feasibility of this approach was demonstrated through a series of simulations involving variable noise levels, seed densities, image separability and number of images. Preliminary results indicate mean reconstruction errors within 1.2 mm for noisy plans of 84 seeds or fewer. These are attained for additive noise whose standard deviation of the 3D mean error introduced to the plan to simulate the implant is within 3.2 mm.

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Maria S. Ayad, Junghoon Lee, Jerry L. Prince, and Gabor Fichtinger "Prostate brachytherapy seed localization using a mobile C-arm without tracking", Proc. SPIE 7261, Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 72611K (13 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811225

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3D modeling

Prostate

3D image processing

3D image reconstruction

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