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Respiratory motion compensation by model-based catheter tracking during EP procedures

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Respiratory motion compensation by model-based catheter tracking during EP procedures
In many cases, radio-frequency catheter ablation of the pulmonary veins attached to the left atrium still involves fluoroscopic image guidance. Twodimensional X-ray navigation may also take advantage of overlay images derived from static pre-operative 3-D volumetric data to add anatomical details otherwise not visible under X-ray. Unfortunately, respiratory motion may impair the utility of static overlay images for catheter navigation. We developed a novel approach for image-based 3-D motion estimation and compensation as a solution to this problem. It is based on 3-D catheter tracking which, in turn, relies on 2-D/3-D registration. To this end, a bi-plane C-arm system is used to take X-ray images of a special circumferential mapping catheter from two directions. In the first step of the method, a 3-D model of the device is reconstructed. Three-dimensional respiratory motion at the site of ablation is then estimated by tracking the reconstructed catheter model in 3-D based on bi-plane...
Alexander Brost, Rui Liao, Norbert Strobel, Joachi
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Updated 20 May 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where MIA
Authors Alexander Brost, Rui Liao, Norbert Strobel, Joachim Hornegger
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