Title
Quantification of skin motion over the liver using optical tracking
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to quantify skin motion over the liver when patients are repositioned during image-guided interventions. Four human subjects with different body habitus lay supine on the interventional radiology table. The subjects held their arms up over their heads and down at their sides for 13 repositioning trials. Precise 3-D locations of the four skin fiducials permitted deformable skin motion to be quantified. For the first two occasions, the average skin motion was 1.00+/-0.82 mm in the arms-up position and 0.94+/-0.56 mm in the arms-down position, a small, but not statistically significant difference. Three out of the four subjects exhibited increased skin motion in the arms-up position, suggesting that patient-positioning technique during CT imaging may have an effect on the skin-motion component of registration error in image-guided interventions. The average skin motion was 0.65+/-0.39 mm for Subject I and 1.32+/-0.78 mm for Subject 2, a significant difference. Subjects 3 and 4 demonstrated a similar amount of skin motion (0.86+/-0.55mm and 0.89+/-0.59mm, respectively). The subject with the largest body habitus demonstrated significantly less skin motion, an observation that is difficult to explain. The skin fiducial on the xiphoid process exhibited significantly less skin motion than the other fiducials, suggesting that certain anatomic locations could influence motion of the fiducial, and subsequently, the introduced error.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1117/12.479784
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
skin motion,liver,image-guided interventions,interventional radiology,repositioning,fiducials,deformable,patient-positioning,registration,xiphoid process
Nuclear medicine,Biomedical engineering,Fiducial marker,Xiphoid process,Optical tracking,Supine position,Medicine,Interventional radiology
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5029
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
david t boyd100.34
jonathan tang2152.72
Filip Banovac36315.29
Daigo Tanaka4297.67
Sonja Dieterich5214.25
David Lindisch64310.97
Elliot Levy7258.72
Kevin Cleary834356.78