CT phantom for development of robotic Interventional Radiology

Author

Nakaya, H. ; Matsuno, T. ; Kamegawa, T. ; Hiraki, T. ; Inoue, T. ; Yanou, A. ; Minami, M. ; Gofuku, A.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Natural Sci. & Thchnology, Okayama Univ., Okayama, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

87

Abstract

There is a surgical method called Interventional Radiology (IVR) as one of lung cancer treatments. It has a problem that doctors are exposed to radiation because IVR is conducted in CT apparatus. In order to avoid the problem, a robotic IVR system that doctors conduct the puncture with a robot is developed. An operation test is necessary to develop the robotic IVR system, however, an experiment with real patients is rejected based on ethic regulation. Therefore, a phantom is used for experiments instead of patients. A phantom is a model of human used for both evaluation and adjustment of medical imaging equipments such as CT and MRI. However, ready-made phantoms can not be punctured, because they are only aimed to radiography and their surface are hard. Therefore a phantom for CT-IVR which can be punctured is developed.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; biomedical equipment; cancer; computerised tomography; lung; medical image processing; medical robotics; phantoms; surgery; CT apparatus; CT phantom; MRI equipments; ethic regulation; lung cancer treatments; medical imaging equipments; puncture; radiography; robotic IVR system; robotic interventional radiology; surgical method; Cancer; Computed tomography; Lungs; Phantoms; Robots; X-rays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Integration (SII), 2014 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6942-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SII.2014.7028016

Filename

7028016