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This paper describes a new software tool called “VesselPathTracker” that was developed to track anatomical features of any segmented voxel model for application in implant non-ionizing radiation protection. A voxel model is a three-dimensional representation of the human body in the form of a numerical array of indexes that identifies each element as belongs to a particular tissue or organ. A valid technique to virtually positioning of an implant within these models while maintaining their anatomical constraints is an elaborate and very time-consuming process. To solve those intricacies in an easy way, a new software tool was developed and is presented here. With this tool, three pacemaker’s leads implantation locations within the cardiovascular system were identified as a representative example.
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This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency [grant number APVV-16-0190]. The authors acknowledge the Computational Electromagnetics Group at The University of Texas at Austin for developing and making the AustinMan Electromagnetic Voxels model available at http://bit.ly/AustinMan.
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Smondrk, M., Babusiak, B., Benova, M. (2019). Software Tool for Tracking of Voxel Phantom’s Anatomical Features. In: Pietka, E., Badura, P., Kawa, J., Wieclawek, W. (eds) Information Technology in Biomedicine. ITIB 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23762-2_54
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