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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2012
William E. Higgins, State College, PA (US);
Rahul Khare, State College, PA (US);
William E. Higgins, State College, PA (US);
Rahul Khare, State College, PA (US);
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Abstract
Two system-level bronchoscopy guidance solutions are presented. The first incorporates a global-registration algorithm to provide the physician with updated navigational and guidance information during bronchoscopy. The system can handle general navigation to a region of interest (ROI), as well as adverse events, and it requires minimal commands so that it can be directly controlled by the physician. The second solution visualizes the global picture of all the bifurcations and their relative orientations in advance and suggests the maneuvers needed by the bronchoscope to approach the ROI. Guided bronchoscopy results using human airway-tree phantoms demonstrate the potential of the two solutions.