GTx-EYES
- Technology Application
- Custom 3D visualization andnavigation platform for image-guided surgery, radiation therapy andinterventional radiology
- Detailed Technology Description
- A Software Platform for Multi-Modality Image Guidance
- *Abstract
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Surgeons,scientists, and engineers in the Guided Therapeutics (GTx) program at UHN havedeveloped a custom 3D visualization and navigation platform for image-guidedsurgery, radiation therapy and interventional radiology. The platform providesnavigation, tracking, image processing and registration of tools and images.
The software package provides registration and visualization of 3D imaging (e.g. CT, MRI, cone-beam CT, SPECT, PET), planning contours, real-time optical/electromagnetic tracking of interventional tools, and endoscopic video.
Fusionof 2D video with 3D volumetric data provides virtual endoscopy and augmentedreality views of sub-surface anatomical structures (e.g., carotid arteries,optic nerves). Real-time tracking combined with virtual critical structure “nofly zones” enables visual/auditory proximity alerts to act as an early-warningsystem for complex interventional procedures.
Thisadvanced image-guidance technology allows for precise intervention performancewhile minimizing complications. Clinician feedback and human factors researchhas been essential to optimizing the user display for safe and effectivemedical use. The modular software architecture promotes the rapid developmentof new clinical applications using a shared set of software components. The useof the system as a dynamic ‘surgical dashboard’ in the OR is being evaluated intwo ongoing UHN clinical studies (head & neck oncology, minimally-invasiveskull base surgery).
- *Principal Investigator
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M. Daly, H. Chan, J. Qiu, R. Weersink, W. Kucharczyk, D. Jaffray, J. Irish, et. al.,UniversityHealth Network
- Country/Region
- USA
