Chapter title |
Interventional Photoacoustic Imaging of the Human Placenta with Ultrasonic Tracking for Minimally Invasive Fetal Surgeries
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Chapter number | 46 |
Book title |
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2015
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Published in |
Lecture notes in computer science, November 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-24553-9_46 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-924552-2, 978-3-31-924553-9
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Authors |
Wenfeng Xia, Efthymios Maneas, Daniil I. Nikitichev, Charles A. Mosse, Gustavo Sato dos Santos, Tom Vercauteren, Anna L. David, Jan Deprest, Sebastien Ourselin, Paul C. Beard, Adrien E. Desjardins |
Editors |
Nassir Navab, Joachim Hornegger, William M. Wells, Alejandro F. Frangi |
Abstract |
Image guidance plays a central role in minimally invasive fetal surgery such as photocoagulation of inter-twin placental anastomosing vessels to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Fetoscopic guidance provides insufficient sensitivity for imaging the vasculature that lies beneath the fetal placental surface due to strong light scattering in biological tissues. Incomplete photocoagulation of anastamoses is associated with postoperative complications and higher perinatal mortality. In this study, we investigated the use of multi-spectral photoacoustic (PA) imaging for better visualization of the placental vasculature. Excitation light was delivered with an optical fiber with dimensions that are compatible with the working channel of a fetoscope. Imaging was performed on an ex vivo normal term human placenta collected at Caesarean section birth. The photoacoustically-generated ultrasound signals were received by an external clinical linear array ultrasound imaging probe. A vein under illumination on the fetal placenta surface was visualized with PA imaging, and good correspondence was obtained between the measured PA spectrum and the optical absorption spectrum of deoxygenated blood. The delivery fiber had an attached fiber optic ultrasound sensor positioned directly adjacent to it, so that its spatial position could be tracked by receiving transmissions from the ultrasound imaging probe. This study provides strong indications that PA imaging in combination with ultrasonic tracking could be useful for detecting the human placental vasculature during minimally invasive fetal surgery. |
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