Medical Imaging and Instrumentation

Robert L. Galloway, Jr., Ph.D.

Description of Research Program

Current Projects

Recent Publications

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Description of Research Program:

Dr. Galloway serves as Director of the Center for Technology-Guided Therapy (www.tgt.vanderbilt.edu*).  In that capacity he works with a team of people who develop techniques for improved imaging methods (tomographic, ultrasound and endoscopic), three dimensional localization and guidance and the intra-operative display of data.

Current Projects Include:

1. Image-guided intracranial neurosurgery,
2. Image-guided hepatic surgery
3. Image-guided spine surgery
4. The incorporation of intra-operative imaging (ultrasound and endoscopy) with image-guided procedures.

Recent Publications:

Herline AJ, Stefansic JD, Debelak JP, Galloway RL, Chapman W. Technical Advances Toward Interactive-Image-Guided Laparoscopic Surgery. Surgical Endoscopy. 14(7): pp. 675-9. 2000.

Stefansic JD, Herline AJ, Shyr Y, Chapman WC, Fitzpatrick JM, and Galloway RL. Registration of Physical Space to Laparoscopic Image Space for use in Minimally Invasive Hepatic Surgery. IEEE-Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol 19, No. 10, pp 1012-1023, October 2000

Hartmann SL, Galloway RL, Depth buffer targeting for spatially accurate 3D visualization of medical images, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Vol 19, No. 10, pp 1024-1031,October 2000.

Galloway RL The Process and Development of Image-Guided Procedures. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. Vol 3 pp. 83-108. 2001

Muratore DM, Galloway RL, Beam calibration without a phantom for creating a three-dimensional freehand ultrasound system. AIUM, Vol 27, No 11 Nov 2001 pp 1557-1566

Fitzpatrick JM and Galloway RL, Fiducial-Based 3D Image- and Patient-Space Matching. Automedica 20(1-2), June 2001

Stefansic JD, Bass WA, Hartmann SL, Beasley R, Sinha TK, Cash DM, Herline AJ, Galloway RL. Design and Implementation of PC-based Image-Guided Surgical System. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2002 Nov;69(3):211

Cash DM, Palmisano MG, Galloway RL. Centroid-Based Maximum Intensity Projections for Interactive, Image-Guided Surgery. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 2002 Jan-Feb;26(1):73-83

T. K. Sinha, D. M. Cash, R. J. Weil, R. L. Galloway, M. I. Miga, Cortical surface registration using texture mapped point clouds and mutual information, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2002, Springer Verlag, New York, Vol. 2489, Part 2, pp. 533-540, 2002.

Muratore DM, Herring JL, Dawant BM. Galloway RL. Three-dimensional image registration of a phantom vertebra for image-guided surgery: a preliminary study. Computer Aided Surgery. 2002, Vol. 7, No. 6.

Miga MI, Sinha TK, Cash DM, Galloway RL, Weil RJ Cortical surface registration for image-guided neurosurgery using laser-range scanning IEEE-Transactions on Medical Imaging, 22 (8): 973-985 Aug 2003

Cash DM, Sinha TK, Chapman WC, Terawaki H, Dawant BM, Galloway RL, Miga MI, Incorporation of a laser range scanner into image-guided liver surgery: Surface acquisition, registration, and tracking, Medical Physics, vol. 30(7), 1671-1682 2003

Gebhart S, Galloway RL, Jansen ED, Three Dimensional Optical Tracking of an Ablative Laser Beam. Medical Physics. In Press. 2004