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Abstract | ||
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Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) offers quantitative anatomical tissue characterization for cancer detection. While most research and commercial development has focused on submerging target anatomy in a transducer-lined cylindrical water tank, this is not practical for imaging deep anatomy and an alternative approach using aligned abdominal and endoluminal ultrasound probes is required. This work outlines and validates a clinical workflow and real-time motion framework for a novel dual-robotic approach specific to in vivo prostate imaging: one arm wielding a linear abdominal probe, the other wielding a linear transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) probe. After calibration, the robotic system works to keep the abdominal probe collinear with the physician-rotated TRUS probe using a convex contour tracking scheme, while also enforcing its gentle contact with the patient’s pubic region to capture the ultrasound slices needed for limited-angle tomographic reconstruction. The repeatable and accurate robotic system presents feasibility for prostate USCT and future malignancy diagnosis and staging in vivo. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1007/978-3-030-60334-2_16 | ASMUS/PIPPI@MICCAI |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 1 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin M. Gilboy | 1 | 1 | 0.34 |
| Yixuan Wu | 2 | 1 | 0.34 |
| Bradford J Wood | 3 | 142 | 31.69 |
| Emad M Boctor | 4 | 140 | 35.24 |
| Russell H. Taylor | 5 | 1970 | 438.00 |