A robust and fast approach to simulating the behavior of guidewire in vascular interventional radiology

It is well known that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of deaths worldwide. Interventional radiology (IR) is widely used in the treatment of most cardiovascular disease. With fluoroscopic guidance, physicians can percutaneously insert flexible instruments (such as guidewire, stent, or catheter) into the patient's blood vessel and, from outside the body, manipulate these instruments through the vascular network until reaching the diseased position. Due to the complexity of the vascular network and the counter-intuitive movement of the instruments, performing an IR procedure is difficult, manipulating instruments in a 3D field while viewing them in a 2D screen, and thus requires a high degree of expertise to avoid causing serious injury to the patients.
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research