Esia Belbachir1,2, Ehsan Golkar1, Bernard Bayle1, Caroline Essert3. 1. ICube, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS (UMR 7357), 300 bd Sébastien Brant, BP 10413, 67412, Illkirch, France. 2. UTBM, Université Bourgogne Franche Comté, Belfort, France. 3. ICube, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS (UMR 7357), 300 bd Sébastien Brant, BP 10413, 67412, Illkirch, France. essert@unistra.fr.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Percutaneous procedures allow interventional radiologists to perform diagnoses or treatments guided by an imaging device, typically a computed tomography (CT) scanner with a high spatial resolution. To reduce exposure to radiations and improve accuracy, robotic assistance to needle insertion is considered in the case of X-ray guided procedures. We introduce a planning algorithm that computes a needle placement compatible with both the patient's anatomy and the accessibility of the robot within the scanner gantry. METHODS: Our preoperative planning approach is based on inverse kinematics, fast collision detection, and bidirectional rapidly exploring random trees coupled with an efficient strategy of node addition. The algorithm computes the allowed needle entry zones over the patient's skin (accessibility map) from 3D models of the patient's anatomy, the environment (CT, bed), and the robot. The result includes the admissible robot joint path to target the prescribed internal point, through the entry point. A retrospective study was performed on 16 patients datasets in different conditions: without robot (WR) and with the robot on the left or the right side of the bed (RL/RR). RESULTS: We provide an accessibility map ensuring a collision-free path of the robot and allowing for a needle placement compatible with the patient's anatomy. The result is obtained in an average time of about 1 min, even in difficult cases. The accessibility maps of RL and RR covered about a half of the surface of WR map in average, which offers a variety of options to insert the needle with the robot. We also measured the average distance between the needle and major obstacles such as the vessels and found that RL and RR produced needle placements almost as safe as WR. CONCLUSION: The introduced planning method helped us prove that it is possible to use such a "general purpose" redundant manipulator equipped with a dedicated tool to perform percutaneous interventions in cluttered spaces like a CT gantry.
PURPOSE: Percutaneous procedures allow interventional radiologists to perform diagnoses or treatments guided by an imaging device, typically a computed tomography (CT) scanner with a high spatial resolution. To reduce exposure to radiations and improve accuracy, robotic assistance to needle insertion is considered in the case of X-ray guided procedures. We introduce a planning algorithm that computes a needle placement compatible with both the patient's anatomy and the accessibility of the robot within the scanner gantry. METHODS: Our preoperative planning approach is based on inverse kinematics, fast collision detection, and bidirectional rapidly exploring random trees coupled with an efficient strategy of node addition. The algorithm computes the allowed needle entry zones over the patient's skin (accessibility map) from 3D models of the patient's anatomy, the environment (CT, bed), and the robot. The result includes the admissible robot joint path to target the prescribed internal point, through the entry point. A retrospective study was performed on 16 patients datasets in different conditions: without robot (WR) and with the robot on the left or the right side of the bed (RL/RR). RESULTS: We provide an accessibility map ensuring a collision-free path of the robot and allowing for a needle placement compatible with the patient's anatomy. The result is obtained in an average time of about 1 min, even in difficult cases. The accessibility maps of RL and RR covered about a half of the surface of WR map in average, which offers a variety of options to insert the needle with the robot. We also measured the average distance between the needle and major obstacles such as the vessels and found that RL and RR produced needle placements almost as safe as WR. CONCLUSION: The introduced planning method helped us prove that it is possible to use such a "general purpose" redundant manipulator equipped with a dedicated tool to perform percutaneous interventions in cluttered spaces like a CT gantry.
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