TY - GEN
T1 - [POSTER] Augmented reality for radiation awareness
AU - Leucht, Nicola
AU - Habert, Severine
AU - Wucherer, Patrick
AU - Weidert, Simon
AU - Navab, Nassir
AU - Fallavollita, Pascal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/11
Y1 - 2015/11/11
N2 - C-arm fluoroscopes are frequently used during surgeries for intraoperative guidance. Unfortunately, due to X-ray emission and scattering, increased radiation exposure occurs in the operating theatre. The objective of this work is to sensitize the surgeon to their radiation exposure, enable them to check on their exposure over time, and to help them choose their best position related to the C-arm gantry during surgery. First, we aim at simulating the amount of radiation that reaches the surgeon using the Geant4 software, a toolkit developed by CERN. Using a flexible setup in which two RGB-D cameras are mounted to the mobile C-arm, the scene is captured and modeled respectively. After the simulation of particles with specific energies, the dose at the surgeon's position, determined by the depth cameras, can be measured. The validation was performed by comparing the simulation results to both theoretical values from the C-arms user manual and real measurements made with a QUART didoSVM dosimeter. The average error was 16.46% and 16.39%, respectively. The proposed flexible setup and high simulation precision without a calibration with measured dosimeter values, has great potential to be directly used and integrated intraoperatively for dose measurement.
AB - C-arm fluoroscopes are frequently used during surgeries for intraoperative guidance. Unfortunately, due to X-ray emission and scattering, increased radiation exposure occurs in the operating theatre. The objective of this work is to sensitize the surgeon to their radiation exposure, enable them to check on their exposure over time, and to help them choose their best position related to the C-arm gantry during surgery. First, we aim at simulating the amount of radiation that reaches the surgeon using the Geant4 software, a toolkit developed by CERN. Using a flexible setup in which two RGB-D cameras are mounted to the mobile C-arm, the scene is captured and modeled respectively. After the simulation of particles with specific energies, the dose at the surgeon's position, determined by the depth cameras, can be measured. The validation was performed by comparing the simulation results to both theoretical values from the C-arms user manual and real measurements made with a QUART didoSVM dosimeter. The average error was 16.46% and 16.39%, respectively. The proposed flexible setup and high simulation precision without a calibration with measured dosimeter values, has great potential to be directly used and integrated intraoperatively for dose measurement.
KW - Augmented reality
KW - C-arm fluoroscopy
KW - Dose measurement
KW - Radiation exposure
KW - Visualization
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U2 - 10.1109/ISMAR.2015.21
DO - 10.1109/ISMAR.2015.21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962330426
T3 - Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2015
SP - 60
EP - 63
BT - Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2015
A2 - Sakata, Nobuchika
A2 - Newcombe, Richard
A2 - Lindeman, Robert
A2 - Sandor, Christian
A2 - Mayol-Cuevas, Walterio
A2 - Teichrieb, Veronica
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2015
Y2 - 29 September 2015 through 3 October 2015
ER -