Pose estimation of eyes for particle beam treatment of tumors

B. P. Selby, G. Sakas, S. Walter, W. D. Groch, U. Stilla

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Abstract

To assure a correct position and orientation of the patient's eye in radiation treatment, a new approach in image-guided radiotherapy is used to determine the misalignment of the eye and the respective correction for the patient support devices. New methods allow correcting the misalignment of the patient's eye full-automatically. Therefore, metallic clips attached to the patient's eyeball are detected in a CT and in two digital X-ray images. Corresponding pairs of clip positions found in the X-ray images are then transferred into the 3D space of the CT volume via inverse projection and compared to the clips found in the CT slices. If several combinations of correspondences are possible, we use a temporary pre-registration to assure that the correct back-projections will be obtained. A rigid, point-set based 6 degrees of freedom registration of the back-projected clip positions with the CT clips allows determining the misalignment of the eye tumor which consists of three shifts and three rotations. These transformations are transformed into parameters for a treatment chair and an eye fixation designated to control placement and orientation of the eye during treatment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBildverarbeitung fur die Medizin 2007
Subtitle of host publicationAlgorithmen - Systeme - Anwendungen, BVM 2007 - Proceedings des Workshops
PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
Pages368-373
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)3540710906, 9783540710905
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
EventWorkshops Bildverarbeitung fur die Medizin: Algorithmen - Systeme - Anwendungen, BVM 2007 - Workshop on Image Processing for Medicine: Algorithms - Systems - Applications, BVM 2007 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 25 Mar 200727 Mar 2007

Publication series

NameInformatik aktuell
ISSN (Print)1431-472X

Conference

ConferenceWorkshops Bildverarbeitung fur die Medizin: Algorithmen - Systeme - Anwendungen, BVM 2007 - Workshop on Image Processing for Medicine: Algorithms - Systems - Applications, BVM 2007
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period25/03/0727/03/07

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