Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jul 2018
Assessment and comparison of target registration accuracy in surgical instrument tracking technologies.
Image guided surgery systems aim to support surgeons by providing reliable pre-operative and intra-operative imaging of the patient combined with the corresponding tracked instrument location. The image guidance is based on a combination of medical images, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasonography (US), and surgical instrument tracking. For this reason, tracking systems are of great importance as they determine location and orientation of the equipment used by surgeons. ⋯ Results of the experiments show that optical tracking performs more accurately in tracking the instrument tip than electromagnetic tracking in the experimental conditions. This was tested using a phantom designed for accuracy measurement in a wide variety of positions and orientations. Nevertheless, EMT remains a viable option for flexible instruments, due to its reliability in tracking without the need for line of sight.