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Precise noninvasive bone motion tracking is a topic of increasing interest, as it provides medical practitioners with important information about musculoskeletal disorders and/or their treatment. Currently, the only non-invasive method that achieves 3D tracking precision below 1 mm is Dual Fluoroscopy (DF). However, this technique is expensive, restricted to only small measuring volumes and time periods, and can only be applied sporadically due to X-ray radiation limits. In a series of previous papers, the authors presented a new concept for bone motion tracking based on external virtual palpation of typical bone protuberances via motion-tracked pressure foils. This paper presents a DF validation of the method for three basic movements of the shank: flexion/extension, abduction/adduction and internal rotation. It is shown that by simple pressure-foil palpation, bone-tracking precisions of 0.5 to 1.0 mm and 0.3\(^{\circ }\) to 0.6\(^{\circ }\) can be attained with respect to manually-registered DF, reaching the same order of magnitude as state-of-the-art model-based tracking algorithms for DF using CT volumes.
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The authors would like to thank Jessica Küpper and Payam Zandiyeh for their valuable contributions and technical assistance. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Centre for Mobility and Joint Health, McCaig Institute for providing us a CT image of the participant using a GE Revolution GSI, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, USA.
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Bufe, N., Kuntze, G., Ronsky, J.L., Kecskeméthy, A. (2019). Fluoroscopy Validation of Noninvasive 3D Bone-Pose Tracking via External Pressure-Foils. In: Lenarcic, J., Parenti-Castelli, V. (eds) Advances in Robot Kinematics 2018. ARK 2018. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93188-3_53
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