Image Guided Surgery

From Success Stories in Scientific Visualization Wiki

Image-Guided Surgery was made possible by the rapid rise in visualization technology. Large multislice image sets can be manipulated in real time providing instantaneous feedback to the surgeon as to their surgical location relative to targets they wish to hit and structures they wish to avoid. In the display screen by the surgeon, the tumor can be seen as a dark spot in the liver tissue and a "floating" red ball in the three-dimensional wireframe.

JD Stefansic, A.J. Herline, Y. Shyr, W.C. Chapman, J.M. Fitzpatrick, and R.L. Galloway, "Registration of physical space to laparoscopic image space for use in minimally invasive hepatic surgery." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 1012-1023. October 2000.