Robust servoing method for renal stones/tumors for the non-invasive ultrasound theragnostic system
Autor: | Kazushi Numata, Kiyoshi Yoshinaka, Kyohei Tomita, Norihiro Koizumi, Takashi Azuma, Hiroyuki Tsukihara, Hideyo Miyazaki, Mamoru Mitsuishi, Naohiko Sugita, Yukio Honma, Yoichiro Matsumoto, Atsushi Kayasuga, Yu Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Fukuda |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
genetic structures
Acoustics and Ultrasonics Computer science business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Non invasive Ultrasound Tracking (particle physics) Acoustic shadow High-intensity focused ultrasound Lesion Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Shadow medicine medicine.symptom Focus (optics) business Biomedical engineering |
Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140:3306-3307 |
ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
Popis: | The main problem on HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) therapy is the difficulty to locate HIFU focus precisely onto the focal lesion, which is located in the moving organ such as livers/kidneys, due to the deformation and rotation, which is caused by respiration. Furthermore, rib bones frequently block the acoustic path to the lesion. The acoustic shadow, which is generated by the rib bone, is observed in the ultrasound images and the lesion is hidden in the shadow. To cope with this problem, we have developed a novel method to track, follow, and monitor the lesion by utilizing the contour information of the organ, which incorporate the lesion under those difficult conditions. As for the tracking method, the contour of the organ, which is deformed and rotated in accordance with respiration, is extracted automatically in 2-D ultrasound images. The missing contour information in the acoustic shadow area is estimated and compensated by the surrounding contours, which are successfully extracted. To con... |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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