Virtual or reality: divergence between preprocedural computed tomography scans and lung anatomy during guided bronchoscopy
In the original article appeared on Page: 1595-1611, Vol 12, No 4 (April 2020) Issue of the Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) (1), three errors occurred in Table 2.
Table 2. Guided bronchoscopy platforms.
| Product | Manufacturer | Technology | Peer-reviewed journal publications |
|---|---|---|---|
| superDimension™ navigation system (version 7.1 and below) | Medtronic | Electromagnetic tracking with a steerable locatable guide and working channel | Over 100 original research articles to date representing data from over 75 clinical studies (2,8) |
| superDimension™ navigation system version 7.2 with fluoroscopic navigation technology | Medtronic | Tomosynthesis-based fluoroscopic navigation: digital tomosynthesis reconstruction of multiple fluoroscopic images. A local registration feature uses fluoroscopy and a proprietary algorithm to update the relationship between the target and the catheter intraprocedurally | Aboudara et al. 2019 (46) |
| SPiN Thoracic Navigation System™ | Veran Medical | Based on an external electromagnetic generator, uses tip-tracked instruments for continuous guidance in a trackable airway map, an inspiration/ expiration computed tomography (CT) scan protocol, and an algorithm to pair inspiratory and expiratory CT scans with the respiratory cycle in order to compensate for respiratory variation (respiratory gating)* | 4 clinical studies (3,27,28,47) and 1 case report (48) on guided bronchoscopy with the SPiNDrive system™ for navigated bronchoscopy*. “All-in-One” study currently recruiting (30) |
| LungPoint™ virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) system | Broncus Medical | Image-based synchronization technique (partly manual). No registration of integrated tracking method | Eberhardt et al. 2010 (12), Tamiya 2013 (13), and Sterman et al. 2015 (49) |
| Bf-Navi | Olympus, Tokyo, Japan | Virtual bronchoscopy. No integrated tracking method | Oki et al. 2019 (50), Ali et al. 2019 (51) |
| Archimedes™ VBN system | Broncus Medical | Registration is conducted using infrared cameras and radiopaque markers to create augmented fluoroscopic views (“fused fluoroscopy”) during bronchoscopic transparenchymal nodule access | Herth et al. 2015 (6) and Harzheim et al. 2016 (52) |
| LungVision™ | BodyVision Medical | Uses augmented fluoroscopy: Artificial intelligence with standard c-arm and dynamic registration tracking to fuse preprocedural CT scans with intraprocedural fluoroscopy | No peer-reviewed journal publications to date. Several abstract reports (14-17) |
| Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (Lung Suite, syngo DynaCT and Toolbox) |
Philips (Best, The Netherlands), Siemens Healthcare (Forchheim, Germany) | Overlays three-dimensional CBCT data on live fluoroscopy (augmented fluoroscopy) with automatic positional adaptation | Hohenforst-Schmidt et al.
2014 (53), Pritchett et al. 2018 (37), Ali et al. 2019 (51), Sobieszczyk et al. 2018 (54), Bowling et al. 2017 (55), and others |
| Ion™ endoluminal robotic system | Intuitive Surgical | Uses direct continuous visualization and fiber-optic, real-time shape-sensing technology | Fielding et al., 2019 (5) |
| Monarch™ Platform | Auris Surgical Robotics | Electromagnetic-based. Uses “fused navigation” of multiple data modalities (electromagnetic navigation, direct visualization, real-time optical pattern recognition, machine learning) to integrate the preprocedural CT into an intraprocedural interface | REACH study (56), Rojas-Solano et al. 2018 (4), two abstract reports (10,11) |
*The SPiN Thoracic Navigation System™ also includes SPiN Perc™, a system of navigated transthoracic needle aspiration (27,57-59) which is outside the scope of this review article yet still subject to CT-to-body divergence.
The details are as followings:
❖ Table 2, 1st column, 8th row: “Lung Suite…”, needs to be corrected as “Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (Lung Suite, syngo DynaCT and Toolbox)”;
❖ Table 2, 2nd column, 8th row: “Philips, Best…”, should be changed to “Philips (Best, The Netherlands), Siemens Healthcare (Forchheim, Germany)”;
❖ Table 2, 4th column, 8th row: at the end of the list of references (“Hohenforst-Schmidt et al.,…”), “and others” needs to add.
The correct Table 2 is given below (Table 2).
The authors regret the error.
References
- 1.Pritchett MA, Bhadra K, Calcutt M, et al. Virtual or reality: divergence between preprocedural computed tomography scans and lung anatomy during guided bronchoscopy. J Thorac Dis 2020;12:1595-611. 10.21037/jtd.2020.01.35 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
