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  • Title: The role of registration in accurate surgical guidance.
    Author: Fitzpatrick JM.
    Journal: Proc Inst Mech Eng H; 2010; 224(5):607-22. PubMed ID: 20718266.
    Abstract:
    Registration is presented as the central issue of surgical guidance. The focus is on the accuracy of approaches employed today, all of which use pre-operative images to guide surgery on rigid anatomy. The three most well-established approaches to guidance, namely the stereotactic frame, point fiducials, and surface matching, are examined in detail, together with two new approaches based on microstereotactic frames. It is shown that each method relies on the registration of points in the image to corresponding points in the operating room, and therefore that the error patterns associated with point registration are similar for all of them. Three types of registration error, namely fiducial localization error (FLE), fiducial registration error (FRE), and target registration error (TRE), are highlighted, as well as two additional guidance errors, namely target localization error and total targeting error, the latter of which is the overall error of the guidance system. Statistical relationships between TRE and FLE, between FRE and FLE, and between TRE, TLE, and TTE are given. Finally some myths concerning fiducial registration are highlighted.
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