Visualization Software for Real-time, Image-guided Therapeutics in Cardiovascular Interventions

Stefan Pintilie (1) , Labonny Biswas (1) , Kevan Anderson (1) , Sandy Dick (1, 2) , Graham Wright (1, 3) , Perry Radau (1)

1 Imaging Research [Sunnybrook]
2 Cardiology [Sunnybrook]
3 MBP - Department of Medical Biophysics

This paper introduces RtViewer, a four-dimensional (3D + time) real-time visualization software for guiding cardiovascular interventions that is open source and freely available. RtViewer was designed to be part of a pipeline that can connect it to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, actively tracked catheters, and navigational devices. The architecture and features of RtViewer will be described with examples of guiding percutaneous cardiovascular interventions. The paper concludes with a brief description of the work in progress on the next generation of this platform, named Vurtigo.

Domains: Medical Imaging

Stefan Pintilie, Labonny Biswas, Kevan Anderson, Sandy Dick, Graham Wright, et al.. Visualization Software for Real-time, Image-guided Therapeutics in Cardiovascular Interventions. CI2BM09 - MICCAI Workshop on Cardiovascular Interventional Imaging and Biophysical Modelling, Sep 2009, London, United Kingdom. pp.141-148. ⟨inria-00417831⟩