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SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 3663-3670Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-013-2941-4
Keywords
Esophagectomy; Image-guided therapy; Laparoscopy; Navigation
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- German Research Foundation (DFG)
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Navigation systems potentially facilitate minimally invasive esophagectomy and improve patient outcome by improving intraoperative orientation, position estimation of instruments, and identification of lymph nodes and resection margins. The authors' self-developed navigation system is highly accurate in static environments. This study aimed to test the overall accuracy of the navigation system in a realistic operating room scenario and to identify the different sources of error altering accuracy. To simulate a realistic environment, a porcine model (n = 5) was used with endoscopic clips in the esophagus as navigation targets. Computed tomography imaging was followed by image segmentation and target definition with the medical imaging interaction toolkit software. Optical tracking was used for registration and localization of animals and navigation instruments. Intraoperatively, the instrument was displayed relative to segmented organs in real time. The target registration error (TRE) of the navigation system was defined as the distance between the target and the navigation instrument tip. The TRE was measured on skin targets with the animal in the 0A degrees supine and 25A degrees anti-Trendelenburg position and on the esophagus during laparoscopic transhiatal preparation. On skin targets, the TRE was significantly higher in the 25A degrees position, at 14.6 +/- A 2.7 mm, compared with the 0A degrees position, at 3.2 +/- A 1.3 mm. The TRE on the esophagus was 11.2 +/- A 2.4 mm. The main source of error was soft tissue deformation caused by intraoperative positioning, pneumoperitoneum, surgical manipulation, and tissue dissection. The navigation system obtained acceptable accuracy with a minimally invasive transhiatal approach to the esophagus in a realistic experimental model. Thus the system has the potential to improve intraoperative orientation, identification of lymph nodes and adequate resection margins, and visualization of risk structures. Compensation methods for soft tissue deformation may lead to an even more accurate navigation system in the future.
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