Robot-assisted light dose evaluation for endoscopically guided photodynamic therapy: a preliminary study

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:5064-7. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333461.

Abstract

Conventional endoscope-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) suffers mostly from motion artifacts, therefore expert hand-eye coordination was always needed during manual operations. In this paper we introduced a visual servo scheme to handle the tracking problem between the focused area and the targeted lesions. The scheme is consisted of real-time feature matching, relative motion cancellation and real-time light dose surveillance. Experiments were carried out both on simulated data and a silicon phantom. It indicates that this scheme outperforms the conventional scheme in terms of reduction in operation time and exposure to healthy tissue.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Light*
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Photochemotherapy / methods*
  • Robotics