3D Endoscopic Approach for Endonasal Sinus Surgery

Author

Moral, A.I. ; Kunkel, M.E. ; Tingelhoff, K. ; Rilk, M. ; Wagner, I. ; Eichhorn, K.W.G. ; Bootz, F. ; Wahl, F.M.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

4683

Lastpage

4686

Abstract

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is a minimal invasive approach adopted in case of chronic sinusitis (inflammation of the paranasal sinuses). The paranasal sinuses are hollow structures within the bones surrounding the nasal cavity. During FESS the surgeon moves the endoscope and other surgical instruments within the nasal cavity following specific paths to approach each one of the paranasal sinuses. The purpose of this study was to reconstruct these paths to access the paranasal sinuses using volumetric CT data. The results will be used for finite element modeling and simulations for robot assisted endonasal surgery.

Keywords

computerised tomography; endoscopes; finite element analysis; medical robotics; surgery; 3D endoscopy; chronic sinusitis; computerized tomography; finite element modeling; functional endoscopic sinus surgery; nasal cavity; paranasal sinuses; robot assisted endonasal surgery; volumetric CT data; Bones; Computed tomography; Endoscopes; Ethics; Eyes; Head; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Minimally invasive surgery; Skull; Endoscopy; Head; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Paranasal Sinus Diseases; Tomography, X-Ray Computed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353385

Filename

4353385