Medical Augmented Reality based on Commercial Image Guided Surgery

Fischer, J.; Neff, M.; Freudenstein, D.; Bartz, D.

Medical Augmented Reality based on Commercial Image Guided Surgery

Files

083-086.pdf (2.05 MB)

Date

2004

Authors

Fischer, J.
Neff, M.
Freudenstein, D.
Bartz, D.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Utilizing augmented reality for applications in medicine has been a topic of intense research for several years. A number of challenging tasks need to be addressed when designing a medical AR system. These include the import and management of medical datasets and preoperatively created planning data, the registration of the patient with respect to a global coordinate system, and accurate tracking of the camera used in the AR setup as well as the respective surgical instruments. Most research systems rely on specialized hardware or algorithms for realizing augmented reality in medicine. Such base technologies can be expensive or very time-consuming to implement. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach of building a surgical AR system by harnessing existing, commercially available equipment for image guided surgery (IGS). We describe the prototype of an augmented reality application, which receives all necessary information from a device for intraoperative navigation.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGVE/EGVE04/083-086
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Sabine Coquillart and Martin Goebel
},
title = {{Medical Augmented Reality based on Commercial Image Guided Surgery
}},
author = {Fischer, J. and 
Neff, M. and 
Freudenstein, D. and 
Bartz, D.
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {3-905673-10-X
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE04/083-086
}
}