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Three-Dimensional Phase Resolved Functional Lung Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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CT image construction of a totally deflated lung using deformable model extrapolation.
Ali Sadeghi Naini1, Greg Pierce, Ting-Yim Lee
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B9, Canada.
Medical Physics
|April 2, 2011
Summary
A new method constructs deflated lung CT images from free-breathing scans for accurate lung brachytherapy. This technique improves tumor targeting by overcoming limitations of preoperative imaging and intraoperative ultrasound.
Area of Science:
- Medical Imaging
- Radiology
- Computational Anatomy
Background:
- Preoperative CT scans of inflated lungs are inaccurate for targeting tumors during deflated lung procedures like brachytherapy.
- Intraoperative ultrasound (US) is sensitive to residual air, limiting its use for targeting in deflated lungs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a novel technique for constructing CT images of a totally deflated lung from preoperative free-breathing 4D-CT data.
- To enable accurate tumor localization for ablative procedures performed on deflated lungs.
Main Methods:
- Extrapolated deformable registration predicts lung deformation during deflation.
- Automatic estimation of lung air volume tracks respiration phase without external markers.
- Deformation fields are applied to preoperative images to generate deflated lung CT.
Main Results:
- Experimental validation using ex vivo porcine lungs showed high similarity between constructed and actual deflated lung CT images.
- Mean absolute intensity difference was 1%.
- Average misalignment of anatomical markers was (0.64, 0.39, 0.11) mm, indicating high accuracy for brachytherapy.
Conclusions:
- The image construction accuracy is suitable for intraoperative tasks like tumor localization and fusion with real-time navigation data.
- The technique enhances the quality of intraoperative US images through registration.
- The method is also valuable for preoperative lung brachytherapy treatment planning.
