iGyne1.0 - Add extension

[xjchen]

Gynecologic malignancies – including cervical, endometrial, and vaginal/vulvar cancers – are with 83,750 new cases in 2010 and 26,930 deaths per year, the 4th leading cause of death in women in the US. Treatment consists of concurrent chemotherapy and external beam radiation followed by interstitial gynecologic brachytherapy, which is the placement of radioactive isotopes directly into a cancer of the uterine cervix or vagina. In order to eradicate the cancer, precise insertion of hollow catheters with introducers into the tumor is required. In this contribution, we investigate a software solution to assist interstitial gynecologic brachytherapy. The software has been implemented as module under 3D Slicer, a free open source software platform for biomedical research. This research module enables on-time processing of the intra-operative MRI data via a DICOM connection to the scanner followed by a multi-stage registration of CAD models of the template and the obturator to the patient images. This allows the virtual placement of interstitial needles during the intervention to assist the physician positioning decision.More information about the iGyne can be found here: http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/iGyne

[jcfr]

Since there is now a newer version of the module captured by issue #150. Closing this issue. See also discussion in #67