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Simulation and Visualization of Liver Cancer Ablation Focus in Optical Surgical Navigation

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Radiofrequency ablation therapy of liver cancer is a local mini-invasive treatment technology with several advantages, such as low trauma, safety, effectiveness, and quick postoperative recovery. The application of the optical surgical navigation system in radiofrequency ablation therapy can realize the real-time positioning of surgical instruments and focus. The positioning results can be displayed on the computer, thereby guiding doctors to accurately insert the radiofrequency electrode into the focus and improving surgical efficiency. Meanwhile, the accurate evaluation of the form and size of the ablation focus by the navigation system is the key to realizing the complete ablation of liver cancer. Therefore, based on the heat conduction equation, this paper simplifies the simulation process of the ablation focus, calculates the volume of the ablation focus by distinguishing boundary points and internal points, achieves the effective simulation of the ablation results in the surgery, and reconstructs the ablation focus by using ray casting algorithm and mobile cube algorithm for 3D visualization processing, thereby providing doctors the convenience of being able to simulate the radiofrequency ablation surgery before the actual surgery.

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Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61505037, the State Scholarship Fund under Grant CSC NO.201408440326, the Pearl River S&T Nova Program of Guangzhou under Grant No.2014J2200049 and No.201506010035, the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program under Grant No.2013B090600057, No.2014A020215006 and 2014A020212657, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.2014ZG003D, the Natural Scientific Foundation of Guangxi under Grant No.2015GXNSFBA139259.

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  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, 510225, China

    Ken Cai

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Rongqian Yang, Hai Ning, Amin Ma & Jing Zhou

  3. College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Huazhou Chen

  4. School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China

    Ken Cai & Wenhua Huang

  5. Department of Radiology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou, 510010, China

    Shanxing Ou

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Cai, K., Yang, R., Chen, H. et al. Simulation and Visualization of Liver Cancer Ablation Focus in Optical Surgical Navigation. J Med Syst 40, 19 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0397-x

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