Needle-Stability Maps for Brain-Tumor Biopsies

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Date (from): 14 October 2011
• Date (to): 16 October 2011
• Editor: Editura Universitaria Craiova (EUC)
• ISSN: 2068-0465
• Lecturer: Paul Herghelegiu
• Location: Sinaia, Romania

@inproceedings\{Groeller_2011_NSM,
  title =      "Needle-Stability Maps for Brain-Tumor Biopsies",
  author =     "Paul Herghelegiu and Vasile Manta and Meister Eduard
               Gr{\"o}ller",
  year =       "2011",
  abstract =   "Minimally invasive surgical procedures like biopsies require
               the insertion of a needle to reach a specific tissue from
               where samples are taken. This process is affected by a
               number of errors that can lead to a different needle pathway
               than originally planned. In the case of brain-tumor
               biopsies, these errors can be caused by the brain shifting
               when the skull is drilled, measurement errors due to the
               physical framework that supports the biopsy needle or some
               other human errors. To provide support for preoperative
               planning, we introduce the concept of a biopsy-needle
               stability-map. This map provides information on how stable a
               biopsy-needle pathway is. We also introduce an algorithm for
               finding the reachable points on the tumor border from one
               specific entry point. A technique for automatically
               selecting the needle pathway that offers the biggest minimal
               distance to any blood vessel is also presented. A 3D
               representation of the regions of interest (tumor, blood
               vessels) together with the needle pathway and the reachable
               points of the tumor has also been implemented. The resulting
               stability map visually represents, using color-coding, how
               close to any blood vessel the pathways surrounding the main
               one are.",
  pages =      "259--263",
  month =      oct,
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of 15th International Conference on System
               Theory, Control and computing (ICSTCC 2011)",
  editor =     "Editura Universitaria Craiova (EUC)",
  issn =       "2068-0465",
  location =   "Sinaia, Romania",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2011/Groeller_2011_NSM/",
}