MNPS

Implementing support for two lateral N-localizers only.

Case o Leksell “Vantage”

work in progress
One isolated slice, with only two N-localizer, provides incomplete information to
accomplish full image registration.

MNPS uses a Volumetric Registration, the higher the volume the higher
expected accuracy.

Use MNPS “Virtual Fiducials Mode” to create the New MNPS plan.

Later, invoke the registration process with keyboard command “CTRL-0”

(Control plus number Zero)
There are tools to manually approximate the Virtual to the Real fiducials
When fiducials are close, invoke the automatic optimization
Results after automatic registration with initial experiments
The transformation is:
- Affine.
- Volumetric.

It takes the 3D coordinates in the original Virtual Fiducials space (x,y,z).

MNPS uses as center of rotation the center of the lower image (xc,yc,zc)
So before applying the affine transformation we need to translate as:
u = x – xc, v = y – yc, z = z – zc.
Now the affine transformation is apply. The following matrix represents the
affine transformation of the sample Vantage image set.

1.0016 -0.0277 0.0086 1.8643

0.0289 1.0016 0.0691 -4.6538
-0.0017 -0.0088 1.0039 0.3031

Finally, the resultant (x1,y1,z1) is translated again according to (xc,yc,zc) to

reach the stereotactic space coordinates:
xs = x1 + xc, ys = y1 + yc, zs = z1 + zc.