Color-encoded distance for interactive focus positioning in laser microsurgery

verfasst von

Andreas Schoob, Dennis Kundrat, Stefan Lekon, Lüder A. Kahrs, Tobias Ortmaier

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time method for interactive focus positioning in laser microsurgery. Registration of stereo vision and a surgical laser is performed in order to combine surgical scene and laser workspace information. In particular, stereo image data is processed to three-dimensionally reconstruct observed tissue surface as well as to compute and to highlight its intersection with the laser focal range. Regarding the surgical live view, three augmented reality concepts are presented providing visual feedback during manual focus positioning. A user study is performed and results are discussed with respect to accuracy and task completion time. Especially when using color-encoded distance superimposed to the live view, target positioning with sub-millimeter accuracy can be achieved in a few seconds. Finally, transfer to an intraoperative scenario with endoscopic human in vivo and cadaver images is discussed demonstrating the applicability of the image overlay in laser microsurgery.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Mechatronische Systeme

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Optics and lasers in engineering

Band

83

Seiten

71-79

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

0143-8166

Publikationsdatum

08.2016

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Elektronische, optische und magnetische Materialien, Atom- und Molekularphysik sowie Optik, Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2016.03.002 (Zugang: Geschlossen)