Thomas Wendler

Thomas Wendler Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality Fakultät für Informatik Technische Universität München Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching b. München Germany Nuklearmedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik Klinikum rechts der Isar Technische Universität München Ismaninger Str. 22 81675 München Germany Skype: E-mail: Phone: +49 (176) 22516326 Fax: +49 (89) 4140-6458 (IFL) Fax: +49 (89) 289-17059 (CAMP) Room: 01.01.03a-c (IFL, lab)

Research Interests

• Computer Aided Surgery / Image Guided Surgery
• Molecular Imaging
• New Imaging Modalities
• Clinical Applications
• Tracking and Navigation
• Modeling and Simulation

Current research

Navigated Beta Probes for Optimal Tumor Resection In medical collaboration with: PD Dr. Andreas Buck, Oberarzt, Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Maria Burian, Assistentarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Dirk Wilhelm, Assistentarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Scientific Director: Nassir Navab, Sibylle Ziegler Contact Person(s): Thomas Wendler, Coskun Ozgur In industrial collaboration with: Dr. Farhad Daghighian, President, IntraMedical Imaging LLC, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Freehand SPECT for Sentinel Lymph Node Localization In medical collaboration with: Prof. Dr. Markus Schwaiger, Chefarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany PD Dr. Andreas Buck, Oberarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Ken Herrmann, Assistenzarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Prof. Dr. Marion Kiechle, Chefarzt, Gynaecology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Stefan Paepke, Leitender Oberarzt, Gynaecology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Andreas Schnelzer, Oberarzt, Gynaecology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Alexandra Ehlerding, Assistenzarzt, Gynaecology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Prof. Dr. Helmuth Friess, Chefarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Marc Martignoni, Oberarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Jakob Saeckl, Assistenzarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Prof. Dr. Stefano Fanti, Chefarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Asienda Ospidaliera S.Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dr. Ivan Santi, Assistenzarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Asienda Ospidaliera S.Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dr. Lorenzo Fantini, Assistenzarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Asienda Ospidaliera S.Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy In academic collaboration with: Dr. Mario Marengo, Head Physicist, Nuklearmedicine, Asienda Ospidaliera S.Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Scientific Director: Nassir Navab, Sibylle Ziegler Contact Person(s): Thomas Wendler In industrial collaboration with: Dr. Joerg Traub, Managing Director, SurgicEye GmbH?, Munich, Germany

Real-time fusion of ultrasound and gamma probe for navigated localization of malignancy In medical collaboration with: PD Dr. Andreas Buck, Oberarzt, Nuklearmedicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany PD Dr. Manfred Stangl, Oberarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany PD Dr. Robert Rosenberg, Oberarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Dr. Maria Burian, Assistentarzt, Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM, Munich, Germany Scientific Director: Nassir Navab Contact Person(s): Thomas Wendler In industrial collaboration with: Dr. Farhad Daghighian, President, IntraMedical Imaging LLC, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Publications

(Please contact me if you do not have access to any of the publications. I would be glad to send a digital copy to you.)

	A. Buck, A. Schnelzer, T. Wendler, K. Herrmann, T. Lasser, J. Traub, O. Kutter, T. Schuster, A. Ehlerding, K. Scheidhauer, M. Kiechle, N. Navab, S. Ziegler, M. Schwaiger First demonstration of 3D lymphatic mapping in breast cancer using freehand SPECT Proceedings of DGN Nuklearmedizin 2010, Leipzig, Germany, April 2010 (bib)
	K. Herrmann, A. Schnelzer, T. Wendler, M. Hoyer, D. Weisgerber, T. Lasser, S. Paepke, M. Martignoni, M. Kiechle, N. Navab, S. Ziegler, M. Schwaiger Evaluation of feasibility of freehand SPECT in the operating room Proceedings of DGN Nuklearmedizin 2010, Leipzig, Germany, April 2010 (bib)
	A. Duliu, T. Lasser, T. Wendler, A. Safi, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Navigated Tracking of Skin Lesion Progression with Optical Spectroscopy SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 13-18 February 2010 (bib)
	T. Wendler, K. Herrmann, A. Schnelzer, T. Lasser, J. Traub, O. Kutter, T. Schuster, M. Kiechle, M. Schwaiger, N. Navab, S. Ziegler, A. Buck Clinical introduction of freehand SPECT for image-guided sentinel lymph node biopsy Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2009), Barcelona, Spain, October 2009 (bib)
	T. Wendler, X. Feng, K. Herrmann, T. Lasser, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab, A. Buck 2D/3D registration of freehand SPECT and planar scintigraphy for clinical evaluation of 3D thyroid scintigraphy Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2009), Barcelona, Spain, October 2009 (bib)
	T. Wendler, K. Herrmann, T. Lasser, J. Traub, M. Schwaiger, N. Navab, S. Ziegler, A. Buck First experience with freehand SPECT for lymphatic mapping in melanoma in upper body Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2009), Barcelona, Spain, October 2009 (bib)
	T. Wendler, T. Lasser, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Freehand SPECT / ultrasound fusion for hybrid image-guided resection Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2009), Barcelona, Spain, October 2009 (bib)
	T. Lasser, A. Duliu, T. Wendler, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Interactive Reconstruction for Freehand SPECT: An Approach to Acquisition Guidance? Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2009), Barcelona, Spain, October 2009 (bib)
	C. Özgür, J. Bieniarz, T. Lasser, S. Ziegler, N. Navab, T. Wendler Phenomenological Models for intraoperative Positron Emission Surface Imaging using Handheld Probes Proceedings of World Congress in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC 2009), Munich, Germany, September 2009 (bib)
	T. Wendler, K. Herrmann, T. Lasser, J. Traub, M. Schwaiger, S. Ziegler, N. Navab, A. Buck Freehand SPECT: first in-vivo evaluation and comparison to conventional lymphatic mapping Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2009), Toronto, USA, June 2009 (bib)
	T. Wendler, X. Feng, T. Lasser, K. Herrmann, J. Traub, K. Scheidhauer, S. Ziegler, D. Lenhart, J. Grahneis, M. Schwaiger, N. Navab, A. Buck Freehand SPECT for 3D thyroid scintigraphy: first patient report Proceedings of DGN Nuklearmedizin 2009, Leipzig, Germany, April 2009 (bib)
	K. Herrmann, T. Wendler, M. Chen, A. Bartel, T. Lasser, K. Scheidhauer, J. Traub, T. Schuster, S. Ziegler, M. Schwaiger, A. Buck, N. Navab Freehand SPECT: first in-vivo use for lymphatic mapping and comparison to conventional imaging Proceedings of DGN Nuklearmedizin 2009, Leipzig, Germany, April 2009 (bib)
	T. Wendler, T. Lasser, A. Buck, C. Özgür, M. Schwaiger, S. Ziegler, N. Navab First in Vivo Use of a Fused Gamma Ultrasound System Proceedings of RSNA 2008, Chicago, USA, December 2008 (bib)
	T. Wendler, T. Lasser, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Towards Confident 3D Tomographic Reconstruction for Asymmetric, Sparse Detector Geometries Proceedings of IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE MIC 2008), Dresden, Germany, October 2008 (bib)
	T. Lasser, T. Wendler, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Towards Reproducibility of Freehand 3D Tomographic Nuclear Imaging Proceedings of IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE MIC 2008), Dresden, Germany, October 2008 (bib)
	T. Lasser, T. Wendler, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Definition of optimal collimator geometries for 3D tomographic thyroid scintigraphy using navigated gamma probes Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2008), Munich, Germany, October 2008 (bib)
	T. Wendler, T. Lasser, A. Buck, J. Traub, M. Schwaiger, S. Ziegler, N. Navab First case report of 3D tomographic thyroid scintigraphy with tracked gamma probes Proceedings of Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2008), Munich, Germany, October 2008, Eur J Nuc Med Mol Imaging, vol. 35 (Suppl. 2), S129 (bib)
	T. Wendler, A. Hartl, T. Lasser, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Tracking-based statistical correction for radio-guided cancer surgery Proceedings of World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC 2008), Nice, France, September 2008 (bib)
	T. Lasser, A. Duliu, T. Wendler, J. Becker, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Computer-assisted spectral quantification of disease progression in CTCL Proceedings of World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC 2008), Nice, France, September 2008 (bib)
	T. Wendler, J. Traub, T. Lasser, M. Feuerstein, J. Vogel, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Combined ultrasound and gamma probe imaging for examination of thyroid nodules Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2008), New Orleans, USA, June 2008 (bib)
	T. Wendler, A. Hartl, T. Lasser, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab 3D Intra-operative nuclear imaging for SLNB in neck Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2008), New Orleans, USA, June 2008 (bib)
	T. Lasser, A. Duliu, T. Wendler, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Navigated tracking of skin lesion progression with optical spectroscopy Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2008), New Orleans, USA, June 2008 (bib)
	A. Hartl, T. Wendler, J. Traub, T. Lasser, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Confident radioactivity surface reconstruction for control of resection borders Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2008), New Orleans, USA, June 2008 (bib)
	N. Navab, J. Traub, A. Buck, S. Ziegler, T. Wendler Navigated nuclear probes for intra-operative functional imaging Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2008), Paris, France, May 14 - 17 2008, pp. 1395-1398 (bib)
	T. Wendler, I. Faure de Pebeyre, T. Lasser, N. Navab Integrated Surface Acquisition for Hand-Held Probes Proceedings of OSA Biomedical Optics (BIOMED 2008), St. Petersburg, USA, March 2008 (bib)
	T. Wendler, M. Feuerstein, J. Traub, T. Lasser, J. Vogel, F. Daghighian, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Real-time fusion of ultrasound and gamma probe for navigated localization of liver metastases Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2007, LNCS 4792 (2), pp. 909-917 (bib)
	T. Wendler, A. Hartl, T. Lasser, J. Traub, F. Daghighian, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Towards intra-operative 3D nuclear imaging: reconstruction of 3D radioactive distributions using tracked gamma probes Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2 2007, LCNS 4792 (2), pp. 252-260 (bib)
	T. Wendler, J. Traub, A. Hartl, T. Lasser, M. Burian, A. Buck, F. Daghighian, M. Schwaiger, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Adding navigation to radio-guided surgery: new possibilities, new problems, new solutions Proceedings of Russian Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (RBC Biomed 2007), Erlangen, Germany, July 2-3, 2007, pp. 96-100 (bib)
	T. Wendler, A. Hartl, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Intraoperative nuclear imaging using navigated gamma-probes for tumor localization Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2007), Washington D.C., USA, June 2007 (bib)
	T. Wendler, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Validation of navigated beta-probe imaging with PET/CT-generated activity surfaces. New approach in radio-guided resection for FDG-positive tumors Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM 2007), Washington D.C., USA, June 2007; Meeting Abstracts 48: 46P-b. (bib)
	O. Kishenkov, T. Wendler, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Method for projecting functional 3D information onto anatomic surfaces: Accuracy improvement for navigated 3D beta-probes Proceedings of Bildverarbeitung fuer die Medizin (BVM 2007), Munich, Germany, March 2007, pp.66-70 (bib)
	T. Wendler, J. Traub, S. Ziegler, N. Navab Navigated three dimensional beta probe for optimal cancer resection Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2006), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6 2006, LNCS 4190 (1), pp. 565-569 (bib)
	J. Glaria, T. Wendler, G. Goodwin An introductory model of a one-piston engine Eur. J. Phys., Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 1115-1125, Nov. 2005
	T. Wendler, J. Glaria, On gas dynamics inside a varying volume cylinder Eur. J. Phys., Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 361-370, Mar. 2005

Theses, SEPs, and IDPs under my (Co-)Supervision

Available:

Current:

• Design and Implementation of a Graphical User Interface for Acquisition and Evaluation of Freehand SPECT for Lymphatic Mapping in Breast and Skin Cancer by David Weisgerber (IDP/Klinisches Anwendungsprojekt)

Finished:

• Workflow analysis of beta-probe guided surgery by (IDP)
• Validation of Navigated Beta Probe Application in Cancer Surgery by (DA/MA/BA)
• User interface design of beta-probe-guided surgery by (SEP)
• Clinical evaluation of freehand SPECT for 3D thyroid scintigraphy by Xinxing Feng (IDP)
• Clinical evaluation of freehand SPECT for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast carcinoma by Mei-Chuan Chen (IDP)
• Navigated Biopsy of scintigraphic cold nodules for patients suspected of having thyroid cancer by Katarzyna Szajkowska (Master Thesis)
• Optical Screening Methods for Quantitative Evaluation of Progression in Skin Displasia by Rebekka Mayr (Master Thesis)
• Feasibility study of beta probes for intraoperative detection of malignancy by Jakub Bieniarz (Master Thesis)
• Robust Surface Reconstruction using IR-Laser-Pointer by Asli Okur (SEP)
• An Iterative Reconstruction Framework for Surface PET: Positron Activity Surface Imaging using Tracked Beta Probes for Intraoperative Control of Resection Borders in Cancer Surgery by Coskun Özgür (Master Thesis)
• Workflow and statistical analysis and workflow optimized design of graphical user interfaces for thyroid examinations by David Weisgerber (IDP/Klinisches Anwendungsprojekt)
• Workflow analysis for tumor resection procedures and evaluation of potential applications for radio-guided surgery by Xin Xu (Master Thesis)
• Confidence visualization and robust inference based on tracking for beta probe surface reconstruction by Alexander Hartl (Diploma Thesis)
• Gamma Probe Modelling and Calibration for SPECT Reconstruction by Alexander Hartl (IDP)

HIWI positions

Please go to http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/OpenHiwiPositions for open HIWI positions.

Further links

• Trip to Torres del Paine, 2003 (fotos)
• Award Marco Orrego Puelma, Instituto de Ingenieros de Chile (fotos)
• Articles on the webpage of USM (Spanish), TUM (German) and Intel (English) on the success at IBTEC 2007.
• Article on perspectives of medical research on "Revista del Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile" (here in Spanish)
• Fotolog at Flickr