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Multi-modal registration of speckle-tracked freehand 3D ultrasound to CT in the lumbar spine.
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PMID:  21982123     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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A method for registration of speckle-tracked freehand 3D ultrasound (US) to preoperative CT volumes of the spine is proposed. We register the US volume to the CT volume by creating individual US "sub-volumes", each consisting of a small section of the entire US volume. The registration proceeds incrementally from the beginning of the US volume to the end, registering every sub-volume, where each sub-volume contains overlapping images with the previous sub-volume. Each registration is performed by generating simulated US images from the CT volume. As a by-product of our registration, the significant drift error common in speckle-tracked US volumes is corrected for. Results are validated through a phantom study of plastic spine phantoms created from clinical patient CT data as well as an animal study using a lamb cadaver. Results demonstrate that we were able to successfully register a speckle-tracked US volume to CT volume in four out of five phantoms with a success rate of greater than 98%. The final error of the registered US volumes decreases by over 50 percent from the speckle tracking error to consistently below 3mm. Studies on the lamb cadaver showed a mean registration error consistently below 2mm.
Authors:
Andrew Lang; Parvin Mousavi; Sean Gill; Gabor Fichtinger; Purang Abolmaesumi
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-8-27
Journal Detail:
Title:  Medical image analysis     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1361-8423     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-10-10     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9713490     Medline TA:  Med Image Anal     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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