Controversy and consensus on the clinical application of three-dimensional visualization technology in hepatobiliary surgery
FAN Ying-fang
FANG Chi-hua
Abstract：Three dimensional visualization technology has become an important technology for preoperative diagnosis and assessment,operative planning,intraoperative guidance and postoperative evaluation,which has greatly promoted the precise diagnosis and treatment level of hepatobiliary surgery diseases.There are differences between three dimensional visualization technology and post-processing technology of CT and MRI in both image reconstruction and image display.Using the three dimensional reformation technology,the post-processing software of CT and MRI recombines the original two dimensional images into three dimensional images without the preprocessing of the original data.These reformation technologies including multiplanar reformation (MPR),curved planar reformation (CPR),vloume rendering technique (VRT) or volume reformation (VR),multiplanar volume reconstruction(MPVR),surface shade display(SSD),and virtual endoscopy(VE).On the other hand,using the technologies including image pre processing,image segmentation,surface rendering or volume rendering,three dimensional visualization technology reconstructs the original two dimensional images (CT or MRI) into three dimensional images and displays these images by visualization technology.Due to the image distortion generated from the further dealing of original two-dimensional image both in three dimensional visualization technology and in post-processing software of CT or MRI,three dimensional visualization technology has no advantages in qualitative diagnosis,however,it is better than post-processing software of CT and MRI in terms of location diagnosis,preoperative planning,improving the the success rate and prognosis of surgery.Surgeons should choose the appropriate three dimensional visualization software on the basis of clinical needs.Three dimensional visualization technology is a new model for the diagnosis and treatment of dieases,which will become an indispensable part of precision surgery in the future.
Keywords：three dimensional reconstructionvisualizationhepatobiliary surgery
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 137-141 )