Heart Bypass Surgery

Reports from Medical University of Vienna advance knowledge in heart bypass surgery

Published in Telemedicine Week, March 23rd, 2010

According to recent research published in the journal Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, "A novel system for image guidance in totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) is presented. Key requirement is the availability of 2D-3D registration techniques that can deal with non-rigid motion and deformation."

"Image guidance for TECAB is mainly required before the mechanical stabilisation of the heart, when the most dominant source of misregistration is the deformation and non-rigid motion of the heart. To augment the images in the endoscope of the da Vinci robot, we have to find the transformation from the coordinate system of the preoperative imaging...

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Source: Telemedicine Week (2010-03-23)

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