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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1762
Keywords
needle steering; FBG sensor; prostate intervention; multilayer phantom insertion
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 CA111288]
- China Scholarship Council
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61375106]
- Link Foundation Fellowship
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BackgroundAccurate needle placement into soft tissue is essential to percutaneous prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment procedures. MethodsThis paper discusses the steering of a 20 gauge (G) FBG-integrated needle with three sets of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors. A fourth-order polynomial shape reconstruction method is introduced and compared with previous approaches. To control the needle, a bicycle model based navigation method is developed to provide visual guidance lines for clinicians. A real-time model updating method is proposed for needle steering inside inhomogeneous tissue. A series of experiments were performed to evaluate the proposed needle shape reconstruction, visual guidance and real-time model updating methods. ResultsTargeting experiments were performed in soft plastic phantoms and in vitro tissues with insertion depths ranging between 90 and 120mm. Average targeting errors calculated based upon the acquired camera images were 0.400.35mm in homogeneous plastic phantoms, 0.61 +/- 0.45mm in multilayer plastic phantoms and 0.69 +/- 0.25mm in ex vivo tissue. ConclusionsResults endorse the feasibility and accuracy of the needle shape reconstruction and visual guidance methods developed in this work. The approach implemented for the multilayer phantom study could facilitate accurate needle placement efforts in real inhomogeneous tissues. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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