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“Virtual Touch”: An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium
H. Zhong, T. Kanade, and D. Schwartzman2
Proceedings of MICCAI 2006, 2006.

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In this paper, we present a left atrium registration system which utilizes a 3D intra-cardiac ultrasound catheter for faster (more than 700 times) and higher quality surface registration point collection than current systems and eventually improves the registration accuracy and stability. With better registration our a system can greatly improve the ablation catheter navigation system which is being used in many hospitals to guide left atrium endocardium ablation procedure

Associated project: Computer Assisted Medical Instrument Navigation

Number of pages: 8

H. Zhong, T. Kanade, and D. Schwartzman2, "“Virtual Touch”: An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium," Proceedings of MICCAI 2006, 2006.

@inproceedings{Zhong_2006_5809,
   author = "Hua Zhong and Takeo Kanade and D. Schwartzman2",
   title = "“Virtual Touch”: An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of MICCAI 2006",
   year = "2006"
}