Real time surface registration for PET motion tracking

  • Authors:
  • Jakob Wilm;Oline V. Olesen;Rasmus R. Paulsen;Liselotte Højgaard;Bjarne Roed;Rasmus Larsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, Lyngby, Denmark;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Techn. Univ. of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, Lyngby, Denmark and Dept. of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen U ...;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, Lyngby, Denmark;Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen;Siemens Healthcare, Siemens A/S, Denmark;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, Lyngby, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • SCIA'11 Proceedings of the 17th Scandinavian conference on Image analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Head movement during high resolution Positron Emission Tomography brain studies causes blur and artifacts in the images. Therefore, attempts are being made to continuously monitor the pose of the head and correct for this movement. Specifically, our method uses a structured light scanner system to create point clouds representing parts of the patient's face. The movement is estimated by a rigid registration of the point clouds. The registration should be done using a robust algorithm that can handle partial overlap and ideally operate in real time. We present an optimized Iterative Closest Point algorithm that operates at 10 frames per second on partial human face surfaces.