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Electromagnetic tracking (EMT) is a core platform technology in the navigation and visualisation of image-guided procedures. The technology provides high tracking accuracy in non-line-of-sight environments, allowing instrument navigation in…
Electromagnetic (EM) tracking enables localization of surgical instruments within the magnetic field emitted by an EM field generator (FG). Usually, the larger a FG is, the larger its tracking volume is. However, the company NDI (Northern…
Accurate motion estimation for tracking deformable tissues in echocardiography is essential for precise cardiac function measurements. While traditional methods like block matching or optical flow struggle with intricate cardiac motion,…
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has been successfully applied to several important application domains such as medicine, geophysics and industrial imaging. EIT offers a high temporal resolution, which allows to track the location of a…
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) enables functional imaging of deep brain structures, but the bulk and weight of current systems preclude their use during many natural human activities, such as locomotion. The proposed long-term solution…
Purpose: Electromagnetic Tracking (EMT) can potentially complement fluoroscopic navigation, reducing radiation exposure in a hybrid setting. Due to the susceptibility to external distortions, systematic error in EMT needs to be compensated…
Clinical tracking systems are popular but typically require specific tracking markers. During the last years, scanning speed of optical coherence tomography (OCT) has increased to A-scan rates above 1 MHz allowing to acquire volume scans of…
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) enables functional imaging of deep brain structures, but the bulk and weight of current systems preclude their use during many natural human activities, such as locomotion. The proposed long-term solution…
This work explores the feasibility of employing ultrasound (US) US technology in a wrist-worn IoT device for low-power, high-fidelity heart-rate (HR) extraction. US offers deep tissue penetration and can monitor pulsatile arterial blood…
Electromagnetic tracking (EMT) shows great potential for automating implant reconstruction in brachytherapy. One of the challenges of this technology is that it does not intrinsically share the same reference frame as the patient's medical…
Atom probe tomography (APT) is a valuable near-atomic scale imaging technique, which yields mass spectrographic data. Experimental correctness can often pivot on the identification of peaks within a dataset, this is a manual process where…
The emergence of real-time 3D ultrasound (US) makes it possible to consider image-based tracking of subcutaneous soft tissue targets for computer guided diagnosis and therapy. We propose a 3D transrectal US based tracking system for precise…
Recent studies confirm the applicability of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based systems for human motion analysis. Notwithstanding, high-end IMU-based commercial solutions are yet too expensive and complex to democratize their use among a…
Precise tracking of the jaw kinematics is crucial for diagnosing various musculoskeletal and neuromuscular diseases affecting the masticatory system and for advancing rehabilitative devices such as jaw exoskeletons, a hardly explored…
Inertial tracking is vital for robotic IoT and has gained popularity thanks to the ubiquity of low-cost inertial measurement units and deep learning-powered tracking algorithms. Existing works, however, have not fully utilized IMU…
Purpose. Ability to locate and track ultrasound images in the 3D operating space is of great benefit for multiple clinical applications. This is often accomplished by tracking the probe using a precise but expensive optical or…
The objective of this work is to develop an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data processing tool that confers clinical context to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for error handling, bias mitigation and interpretability. We present…
We analyze theoretically the sensitivity of accelerometry and rotation sensing with a point source interferometer employing large momentum transfer (LMT) and present a design of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that can measure rotation…
Aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscopy (ETEM) enables atomic-resolution imaging of dynamic catalytic processes. Correlating atomic-scale structural changes with reaction products detected by mass spectrometry…
Electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) is drawing increasing interest in short-circuit fault location. In this letter, we investigate the classic EMTR fault location methods and find that it is not necessary to reverse the obtained signal in…