@inproceedings{16fdf912e60a45728d10573ff638c33a,
title = "Bioelectric navigation: A new paradigm for intravascular device guidance",
abstract = "Inspired by the electrolocalization behavior of weakly electric fish,we introduce a novel catheter guidance system for interventional vascular procedures. Impedance measurements from electrodes on the catheter form an electric image of the internal geometry of the vessel. That electric image is then mapped to a pre-interventional model to determine the relative position of the catheter within the vessel tree. The catheter{\textquoteright}s measurement of its surroundings is unaffected by movement of the surrounding tissue,so there is no need for deformable 2D/3D image registration. Experiments in a synthetic vessel tree and ex vivo biological tissue are presented. We employed dynamic time warping to map the empirical data to the pre-interventional simulation,and our system correctly identified the catheter{\textquoteright}s path in 25/30 trials in a synthetic phantom and 9/9 trials in biological tissue. These first results demonstrated the capability and potential of Bioelectric Navigation as a non-ionizing technique to guide intravascular devices.",
author = "Bernhard Fuerst and Sutton, {Erin E.} and Reza Ghotbi and Cowan, {Noah J.} and Nassir Navab",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.; 1st International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2016 held in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2016 ; Conference date: 21-10-2016 Through 21-10-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46720-7_55",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319467191",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "474--481",
editor = "Sebastian Ourselin and Leo Joskowicz and Sabuncu, {Mert R.} and William Wells and Gozde Unal",
booktitle = "Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016 - 19th International Conference, Proceedings",
}