Abstract
We investigated a registration method between preoperative 3D-CTA and intraoperative fluoroscopic images during intervention. Our final goal is assisting endovascular stent grafting for aortic aneurysm. In our method, DRR (Digitally Reconstructed Radiograph) are generated by voxel projection of 3D-CTA after extracting an aorta region. By increasing/decreasing CT value in the aorta region of DRR with/without contrast media injection are obtained. Subsequently we calculate matching measures between DRR and fluoroscopic images iteratively by changing imaging parameters. The most similar DRR to fluoroscopic image is selected. We investigated characteristics of several matching measures using simulated fluoroscopic images. From simulation results, we use M-estimator of residual in our method. From an application example to clinical data, registration was successfully applied by M-estimator of residual.KeywordsStent GraftingFluoroscopic ImageContrast Media InjectionContrast Agent InjectionEndovascular Stent GraftingThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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