2008 Summer Project Week:PerkStation

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Key Investigators

• PI: Gabor Fichtinger, Queen's University
• Queen's University: Siddharth Vikal
• Johns Hopkins University: Csaba Csoma
• NA-MIC:

Objective

The objective of this project (PERK Station) is to develop a tool implemented as a Slicer 3 module, that provides feedback to trainees in a controlled environment for performing image-guided percutaneous needle interventions.

Approach, Plan

The PERK Station comprises of image overlay. The physician looks at the patient/phantom through the mirror showing the image overlay and the CT/MR image appears to be floating inside the body with the correct size and position, as if the physician had 2D ‘X-ray vision’. The planning and control software runs on a stand-alone laptop, where we draw a visual guide along the trajectory of insertion, mark the depth of insertion and push this image onto the overlay display.

Progress

We are currently in the process of ..

References

• Overview of JHU DBP 2
• BRP Robotics Project Page at NC IGT
• Segmentation and Registration Tools for Robotic Prostate Interventions