XIP software for XFM (X-Ray fused with MRI)

Abstract

X-Ray Flouroscopy (XF) is one of the most commonly used imaging techniques in interventional radiology, with the main disadvantage of low soft tissue contrast. XFM tries to overcome this using information from MRI. In XFM, anatomical details gathered from a priori MRI is overlaid on top of live XF images during interventions. To achieve this, registration between MRI and XF spaces should be done, for which markers visible both in MRI and XF could be used. Considering all the requirements of the final project goal, which is a comprehensive XFM software for early clinical research, Extensible Imaging Platform (XIP) is chosen for its development environment. XIP is supported by groups like caBIG and Siemens Corporate Research.