title: 3D registration through pseudo x-ray image generation.
abstract: Registration of a pre operative plan with the intra operative position of the patient is still a largely unsolved problem. Current techniques generally require fiducials, either artificial or anatomic, to achieve the registration solution. Invariably these fiducials require implantation and/or direct digitisation. The technique described in this paper requires no digitisation or implantation of fiducials, but instead relies on the shape and form of the anatomy through a fully automated image comparison process. A pseudo image, generated from a virtual image intensifier's view of a CT dataset, is intra operatively compared with a real x-ray image. The principle is to align the virtual with the real image intensifier. The technique is an extension to the work undertaken by Domergue [1] and based on original ideas by Weese [4].
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Viant
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Barnel
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014584:User-Computer Interface