PAE treatment for BPH

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9872655-B2
Application number	US-201213435583-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2012
Priority date	Mar 30, 2012
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

A method of guiding a catheter during an embolization operation includes receiving volume data of a patient volume, the patient volume including a lesion and a feeding vessel for the lesion, detecting the feeding vessel in the volume data, define a vessel connection path for the feeding vessel, the vessel connection path connecting first and second points in the volume data, the second point being disposed along the feeding vessel, receiving fluoroscopic projection data of the patient volume, and rendering the fluoroscopic projection data with an overlay during the embolization operation, the overlay including the vessel connection path for the feeding vessel.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method of guiding a catheter during an embolization operation for a lesion, the method comprising:
receiving volume data of a patient volume, the patient volume including the lesion and a feeding vessel for the lesion;
defining, with a processor, a margin around the lesion in the volume data, wherein defining the margin comprises determining, with the processor, a margin boundary extended outward a distance from a boundary of the lesion;
detecting, with the processor, the feeding vessel in the volume data;
defining, with the processor, a vessel connection path for the feeding vessel, the vessel connection path connecting first and second points in the volume data, the second point being disposed along the feeding vessel within the margin boundary;
receiving, via an x-ray imaging system, fluoroscopic projection data of the patient volume and the catheter, the fluoroscopic projection data being generated by the x-ray imaging system; and
displaying, on a display device, an image of the patient volume and the catheter via the fluoroscopic projection data with an overlay during the embolization operation, the overlay comprising the vessel connection path for the feeding vessel;
wherein detecting the feeding vessel comprises detecting, with the processor, the second point via analysis of the volume data.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising detecting a position of a catheter tip in the volume data, wherein the first point in the volume data is the position of the catheter tip.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying a representation of the volume data; and
receiving a user specification of a position in the displayed representation indicative of a point along an artery for the feeding vessel, wherein the first point in the volume data corresponds with the position of the received user specification.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting the feeding vessel comprises implementing a segmentation procedure to define a representation of the lesion in the volume data.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting the feeding vessel further comprises:
generating a histogram analysis of the volume data; and
detecting the feeding vessel in the volume data based on the histogram analysis.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein defining the margin comprises implementing a segmentation procedure to define a representation of the lesion in the volume data, and wherein detecting the feeding vessel is implemented on a pre-segmentation representation of the volume data.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein defining the vessel connection path comprises implementing a region growing procedure.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
acquiring scan data of the patient volume during the embolization operation; and
registering the received volume data to a coordinate system of the acquired scan data.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
detecting the feeding vessel comprises detecting the feeding vessel within the margin of the lesion; and
the margin is defined based on the boundary of the lesion and a diameter of the lesion such that the distance is determined in a relative manner based on the diameter of the lesion.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
defining the margin comprises implementing a segmentation procedure to define a segmented representation of the lesion in the volume data;
the margin is defined based on results of the segmentation procedure; and
the overlay further comprises the segmented representation of the lesion.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for guiding a catheter during an embolization operation for a lesion, the instructions comprising computer code to:
receive volume data of a patient volume, the patient volume including the lesion and a feeding vessel for the lesion;
determine a margin boundary extended outward a distance from a boundary of the lesion to define a margin around the lesion in the volume data;
detect the feeding vessel in the volume data;
define a vessel connection path for the feeding vessel, the vessel connection path connecting first and second points in the volume data, the first point being disposed along an artery for the feeding vessel and the second point being disposed along the feeding vessel within the margin boundary;
receive, via an x-ray imaging system, fluoroscopic projection data of the patient volume and the catheter, the fluoroscopic projection data being generated by the x-ray imaging system; and
render an image from the fluoroscopic projection data of the patient volume and the catheter during the embolization operation, the image additionally comprising the vessel connection paths for the feeding vessel;
wherein the computer code to detect the feeding vessel is configured to detect the second point via analysis of the volume data.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , the instructions comprising further computer code to detect a position of a catheter tip in the volume data, wherein the first point in the volume data is the position of the catheter tip.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , the instructions comprising further computer code to:
display a representation of the volume data; and
receive a user specification of a position in the displayed representation indicative of a point along an artery for the feeding vessel, wherein the first point in the volume data corresponds with the position of the received user specification.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the instructions to detect the feeding vessel are configured to:
generate a histogram analysis of the volume data; and
detect the feeding vessel in the volume data based on the histogram analysis.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the instructions to define the margin comprises further computer code to implement a segmentation procedure to define a representation of the lesion in the volume data, and wherein the instructions to detect the feeding vessel are implemented on a pre-segmentation representation of the volume data.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14 wherein the instructions to define the vessel connection path comprises implementing a region growing procedure.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , the instructions comprising further computer code to:
receive scan data of the patient volume during the embolization operation; and
register the received volume data to a coordinate system of the acquired scan data.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the margin around the lesion is defined based on a segmentation of the volume data, and wherein the margin along the feeding vessel is defined based on the boundary of the lesion and a diameter of the lesion such that the distance is determined in a relative manner based on the diameter of the lesion.

19. A system for guiding a catheter during an embolization operation for a lesion, the system comprising:
a memory in which volume data of a patient volume is stored;
an x-ray imaging system operable to generate fluoroscopic projection data for the patient volume and the catheter;
a processor configured to define a vessel connection path for a feeding vessel for the lesion and to render a representation of the patient volume and the catheter via the fluoroscopic projection data, the representation comprising the vessel connection path; an

Assignees

• Amberg Jessica
• Knoop Hayo
• Lautenschläger Stefan
• Sonntag Kerstin
• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Amberg Jessica
• Knoop Hayo
• Lautenschläger Stefan
• Sonntag Kerstin

Classifications

• A61B6/032

  Transmission computed tomography [CT] · CPC title

• A61B6/487

  involving fluoroscopy · CPC title

• A61B6/4441

  the rigid structure being a C-arm or U-arm · CPC title

• A61B6/504

  for diagnosis of blood vessels, e.g. by angiography · CPC title

• A61B6/12 Primary

  Arrangements for detecting or locating foreign bodies · CPC title