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Guillermo Carbajal<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Uruguay<\/div>\n
Member from 2012<\/em> to 2015<\/em><\/div>\n
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\n\tGuillermo is on the teching faculty of Instituto de Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica in Montevideo Uruguay. He has been in the Perk Lab as visiting researcher and now is local champion of SlicerIGT and PLUS. We look foward to his return to the perk Lab!
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Carbajal, Guillermo; G\u00f3mez, \u00c1lvaro; Fichtinger, Gabor; Ungi, Tamas<\/p>

Portable Optically Tracked Ultrasound System for Scoliosis Measurement<\/a> Conference<\/span> <\/p>

Recent Advances in Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging (MICCAI 2014), <\/span>vol. 20, <\/span>Springer International Publishing <\/span>Springer International Publishing, <\/span>Cambridge, MA, <\/span>2015<\/span>, ISBN: 978-3-319-14147-3<\/span>.<\/p>

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@conference{Carbajal2015,
\r\ntitle = {Portable Optically Tracked Ultrasound System for Scoliosis Measurement},
\r\nauthor = {Guillermo Carbajal and \u00c1lvaro G\u00f3mez and Gabor Fichtinger and Tamas Ungi},
\r\nurl = {http:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-14148-0_4
\r\nhttps:\/\/labs.cs.queensu.ca\/perklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/Carbajal2015.pdf},
\r\ndoi = {10.1007\/978-3-319-14148-0_4},
\r\nisbn = {978-3-319-14147-3},
\r\nyear  = {2015},
\r\ndate = {2015-02-01},
\r\nurldate = {2015-02-01},
\r\nbooktitle = {Recent Advances in Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging (MICCAI 2014)},
\r\nvolume = {20},
\r\npages = {37-46},
\r\npublisher = {Springer International Publishing},
\r\naddress = {Cambridge, MA},
\r\norganization = {Springer International Publishing},
\r\nabstract = {<p><span style=\"font-family:helvetica neue,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Monitoring spinal curvature in adolescent kyphoscoliosis requires regular radiographic examinations; however, the applied ionizing radiation increases the risk of cancer. Ultrasound imaging is favorable over X-ray because it does not emit ionizing radiation. It has been shown in the past that tracked ultrasound can be used to localize vertebral transverse processes as landmarks along the spine to measure curvature angles. Tests have been performed with spine phantoms, but scanning protocol, tracking system, data acquisition and processing time has not been considered in human subjects yet. In this paper, a portable optically tracked ultrasound system for scoliosis measurement is presented. It provides a simple way to acquire data in the clinical environment with the aim of comparing results to current X-ray-based measurement. The workflow of the procedure was tested on volunteers. The customized open-source software is shared with the community as part of our effort to make a clinically practical system.<\/span><\/p>},
\r\nkeywords = {},
\r\npubstate = {published},
\r\ntppubtype = {conference}
\r\n}
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<p><span style="font-family:helvetica neue,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Monitoring spinal curvature in adolescent kyphoscoliosis requires regular radiographic examinations; however, the applied ionizing radiation increases the risk of cancer. Ultrasound imaging is favorable over X-ray because it does not emit ionizing radiation. It has been shown in the past that tracked ultrasound can be used to localize vertebral transverse processes as landmarks along the spine to measure curvature angles. Tests have been performed with spine phantoms, but scanning protocol, tracking system, data acquisition and processing time has not been considered in human subjects yet. In this paper, a portable optically tracked ultrasound system for scoliosis measurement is presented. It provides a simple way to acquire data in the clinical environment with the aim of comparing results to current X-ray-based measurement. The workflow of the procedure was tested on volunteers. The customized open-source software is shared with the community as part of our effort to make a clinically practical system.<\/span><\/p><\/div>
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