Towards Interactive Planning of Coil Embolization in Brain Aneurysms

Abstract. Many vascular pathologies can now be treated in a minimally invasive way thanks to interventional radiology. Instead of open surgery, it allows to reach the lesion of the arteries with therapeutic devices through a catheter. As a particular case, intracranial aneurysms are treated by filling the localized widening of the artery with a set of coils to prevent a rupture due to the weakened arterial wall. Considering the location of the lesion, close to the brain, and its very small size, the procedure requires a combination of careful planning and excellent technical skills. An interactive and reliable simulation, adapted to the patient anatomy, would be an interesting tool for helping the interventional neuroradiologist plan and rehearse a coil embolization procedure. This paper describes an original method to perform interactive simulations of coil embolization and proposes a clinical metric to quantitatively measure how the first coil fills the aneurysm. The simulation re...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MICCAI
• Authors: Jérémie Dequidt, Christian Duriez, Stephane Cotin, Erwan Kerrien
• Keywords: Coil, Coil Embolization, Embolization Procedure, Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2009