Lena Maier-Hein

TL;DR: In contrast to state-of-the-art needle-shaped fiducial markers, the fluorescent markers can be reliably tracked when occluded by smoke, blood or tissue, which makes the new 2D/3D intra-operative registration approach considerably more robust than state- of theart marker-based methods.

TL;DR: The results show that transponder tracking with the Calypso system provides a precision and accuracy below 1 mm in ideal clinical environments, which is comparable with other EM tracking systems.

TL;DR: A new approach to establishing surface correspondences, which can be used to initialize fine surface matching algorithms in the context of intra-operative shape-based registration, which does not require any prior knowledge on the relative poses of the input surfaces to each other, does not rely on the detection of prominent surface features, is robust to noise and could be used for overlapping surfaces.

TL;DR: This work provides implementation schematics for the Anser project which relies on low-cost acquisition and demodulation techniques using both National Instruments and Arduino hardware alongside MATLAB support code and believes that novel and collaborative approaches can overcome the limitations of current EMT technology.