Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.4637
Publisher DOI: 10.1007/s11548-022-02665-5
Title: Systematic analysis of volumetric ultrasound parameters for markerless 4D motion tracking
Language: English
Authors: Sprenger, Johanna 
Bengs, Marcel 
Gerlach, Stefan  
Neidhardt, Maximilian 
Schlaefer, Alexander 
Keywords: Image guidance; Motion estimation; Radiotherapy; Tracking; Ultrasound
Issue Date: 21-May-2022
Publisher: Springer
Source: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 17 (11): 2131-2139 (2022-11-01)
Abstract (english): 
Objectives: Motion compensation is an interesting approach to improve treatments of moving structures. For example, target motion can substantially affect dose delivery in radiation therapy, where methods to detect and mitigate the motion are widely used. Recent advances in fast, volumetric ultrasound have rekindled the interest in ultrasound for motion tracking. We present a setup to evaluate ultrasound based motion tracking and we study the effect of imaging rate and motion artifacts on its performance. Methods: We describe an experimental setup to acquire markerless 4D ultrasound data with precise ground truth from a robot and evaluate different real-world trajectories and system settings toward accurate motion estimation. We analyze motion artifacts in continuously acquired data by comparing to data recorded in a step-and-shoot fashion. Furthermore, we investigate the trade-off between the imaging frequency and resolution. Results: The mean tracking errors show that continuously acquired data leads to similar results as data acquired in a step-and-shoot fashion. We report mean tracking errors up to 2.01 mm and 1.36 mm on the continuous data for the lower and higher resolution, respectively, while step-and-shoot data leads to mean tracking errors of 2.52 mm and 0.98 mm. Conclusions: We perform a quantitative analysis of different system settings for motion tracking with 4D ultrasound. We can show that precise tracking is feasible and additional motion in continuously acquired data does not impair the tracking. Moreover, the analysis of the frequency resolution trade-off shows that a high imaging resolution is beneficial in ultrasound tracking.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11420/13762
DOI: 10.15480/882.4637
ISSN: 1861-6429
Journal: 
Institute: Medizintechnische und Intelligente Systeme E-1 
Document Type: Article
Project: Robotisierte Ultraschall-gestützte Bildgebung zur Echtzeit-Bewegungskompensation in der Strahlentherapie (RobUST), Phase II 
Projekt DEAL 
License: CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) CC BY 4.0 (Attribution)
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