An ultrasonic navigation system for endovascular aortic repair.
The objective of our research is to develop an ultrasound, time-of-flight triangulation based system for real-time, intraoperative 3-dimensional tracking of minimally invasive surgical instruments. We have chosen to first apply this technology towards tracking catheters used in endovascular aortic stent-grafting. To demonstrate the feasibility of this concept, we have developed a system involving a custom catheter based transducer and performed an experiment in excised porcine tissue with a model aorta.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. jmung@usc.edu
Jay
J
Mung
Sukgu
S
Han
Daniel
D
Fullerton
Aaron
A
Bond
Brent
B
Liu
Fred
F
Weaver
Jesse
J
Yen
D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed