Virtual bronchoscopy method based on marching cubes and an efficient collision detection and resolution algorithm

Ciobirca, Catalin; Popa, Teodoru; Gruionu, Gabriel; Lango, Thomas; Leira, Hakon Olav; Pastrama, Stefan Dan; Gruionu, Lucian Gheorghe

doi:10.1016/j.ctmat.2015.12.002

ISSN: 0870-8312

Ciência & Tecnologia dos Materiais is the official journal of SPM, the Portuguese Society of Materials (Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais), providing a forum for publishing peer-reviewed papers related to both fundamentals of materials science and technological application of engineering materials. The scope of the journal covers a wide range of topics in materials science that are of interest to the SPM, encompassing electrochemistry, corrosion and protection of materials, extractive metallurgy and recycling, electronic and optoelectronic materials, biomaterials, forest materials, polymeric and composite materials, foundry, heat treatment and surface engineering, tribology, and fracture. Science and Technology of Materials welcomes contributions in the form of original research papers, review articles and technical notes reporting advances on those fields, emphasizing new materials, new products and devices, and new technologies. Continued as Science and Tecnology of Materials

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A novel system for electromagnetic navigation in bronchoscopy (NaviCAD) to improve peripheral lesion targeting and diagnostic is currently under development. The virtual bronchoscopy module of this system, including the collision and resolution algorithm, together with some preliminary tests on a complex phantom are presented in this paper. The NaviCAD system consists of a planning and orientation software, a navigation forceps, and an electromagnetic tracking system connected to a computer running the NaviCAD software. NaviCAD can be used with any bronchoscopy system, it has a short set-up procedure time and learning curve. The system proves to be easy to use, accurate and useful for experienced users and novices, with precision in reaching targets in sub-segmental bronchi where a video-bronchoscope cannot reach.

Keywords:

bronchoscopy

navigation

electromagnetic tracking

biopsy

lung diagnosis

virtual bronchoscopy

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