Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/SliceTracker

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Introduction and Acknowledgements

Extension: SliceTracker Acknowledgments: This work is supported in part by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health through the following grants: Enabling technologies for MRI-guided prostate interventions (R01 CA111288, PI Tempany) The National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (P41 EB015898, PI Tempany) Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR) (U24 CA180918, PIs Kikinis and Fedorov). Contributors: Christian Herz (SPL), Peter Behringer (SPL), Andrey Fedorov (SPL) Contact: Andrey Fedorov, <email>andrey.fedorov@gmail.com</email> License: Slicer License Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research   Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL)   National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT)

Extension Description

Slicetracker is a Slicer extension which focuses on tracking the prostate during MR-guided prostate biopsies. It combines registration of the prostate in pre-procedural and intra-procedural images which improves the chance to find the exact same target position in intra-procedural images.

Furthermore, a so called z-Frame registration module is included for correlating the patient and 3D Slicers coordinate system. For guidance of the needle a template grid with 15x14 holes is placed in front of the z-Frame. The optimal hole is computed for inserting the needle and obtaining the tissue sample.

References

[1] Fedorov A., Tuncali K., Fennessy FM., Tokuda J., Hata N., Wells WM., Kikinis R., Tempany CM. 2012. Image registration for targeted MRI-guided transperineal prostate biopsy. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging: JMRI 36:987–992. DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23688.

[2] Fedorov A., Tuncali K., Penzkofer T., Tokuda J., Song S-E., Hata N., Tempany C. 2013. Quantification of intra-procedural gland motion during transperineal MRI-guided prostate biopsy. In: Proc. of ISMRM’13.

[3] Tokuda J., Tuncali K., Iordachita I., Song S-EE., Fedorov A., Oguro S., Lasso A., Fennessy FM., Tempany CM., Hata N. 2012. In-bore setup and software for 3T MRI-guided transperineal prostate biopsy. Physics in medicine and biology 57:5823–5840. DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/18/5823.

[4] Behringer P., Herz C., Penzkofer T., Tuncali K., Tempany C., Fedorov A. 2015. Open-­source Platform for Prostate Motion Tracking during in­-bore Targeted MRI­-guided Biopsy. In: MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures: Translational Research in Medical Imaging. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31808-0_15.

Information for Developers

• Source code on github: https://github.com/SlicerProstate/SliceTracker