Organ movement and targeting during non-invasive therapy and surgery

Mustafa A, Abhilash RH, Chauhan S

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Abstract

One of the major challenges faced during non-invasive treatment and surgery of tumours or cancers in abdominal organs such as the liver, lungs or kidneys is the continuous movement due to physiological processes. This motion creates the need for comprehensive treatment planning in order to understand the target movement, compute the relative motion of the energy delivery system and compensate for the motion during image-guided robotic surgery. Without correct motion estimation, the target volume may suffer from inaccurate dosage delivery
and/or adverse effects on the surrounding healthy tissue. A number of approaches have been proposed to deal with motion tracking. A succinct review of the methods used in the motion estimation and management of moving
target volumes in the major abdominal organs, such as lungs, liver and kidney, are presented in this paper.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1014
Number of pages7
JournalSM Journal of Biomedical Engineering
Volume3
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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