LabVIEW graphical user interface for a new high sensitivity, high resolution micro-angio-fluoroscopic and ROI-CBCT system

C. Keleshis; C. N. Ionita; G. Yadava; V. Patel; D. R. Bednarek; K. R. Hoffmann; A. Verevkin; S. Rudin

doi:10.1117/12.769630

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25 March 2008 LabVIEW graphical user interface for a new high sensitivity, high resolution micro-angio-fluoroscopic and ROI-CBCT system

C. Keleshis, C. N. Ionita, G. Yadava, V. Patel, D. R. Bednarek, K. R. Hoffmann, A. Verevkin, S. Rudin

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Proceedings Volume 6913, Medical Imaging 2008: Physics of Medical Imaging; 69135A (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769630
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A graphical user interface based on LabVIEW software was developed to enable clinical evaluation of a new High-Sensitivity Micro-Angio-Fluoroscopic (HSMAF) system for real-time acquisition, display and rapid frame transfer of high-resolution region-of-interest images. The HSMAF detector consists of a CsI(Tl) phosphor, a light image intensifier (LII), and a fiber-optic taper coupled to a progressive scan, frame-transfer, charged-coupled device (CCD) camera which provides real-time 12 bit, 1k × 1k images capable of greater than 10 lp/mm resolution. Images can be captured in continuous or triggered mode, and the camera can be programmed by a computer using Camera Link serial communication. A graphical user interface was developed to control the camera modes such as gain and pixel binning as well as to acquire, store, display, and process the images. The program, written in LabVIEW, has the following capabilities: camera initialization, synchronized image acquisition with the x-ray pulses, roadmap and digital subtraction angiography acquisition (DSA), flat field correction, brightness and contrast control, last frame hold in fluoroscopy, looped play-back of the acquired images in angiography, recursive temporal filtering and LII gain control. Frame rates can be up to 30 fps in full-resolution mode. The user friendly implementation of the interface along with the high frame-rate acquisition and display for this unique high-resolution detector should provide angiographers and interventionalists with a new capability for visualizing details of small vessels and endovascular devices such as stents and hence enable more accurate diagnoses and image guided interventions.

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C. Keleshis, C. N. Ionita, G. Yadava, V. Patel, D. R. Bednarek, K. R. Hoffmann, A. Verevkin, and S. Rudin "LabVIEW graphical user interface for a new high sensitivity, high resolution micro-angio-fluoroscopic and ROI-CBCT system", Proc. SPIE 6913, Medical Imaging 2008: Physics of Medical Imaging, 69135A (25 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769630

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