A Novel Approach to Synchronous Image Acquisition from Near Infrared Camera in Optical-Surgery Navigation System

Abstract

The positional accuracy of an optical-surgery navigation system is significantly affected by two factors. One is the acquisition synchronism of the two cameras in the system, and the other is the phase difference in image transmission acquired by these cameras. To further enhance image-acquisition synchronism, a field programmable gate array (FPGA)- based synchronous-acquisition method is introduced in this paper. The FPGA control circuit board is independently designed to equalize the length of all data lines, thereby reducing differences in image transmission. Two Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductors (CMOS) image sensor chips of MT9V032 are also adopted to enable synchronous acquisition in passive acquisition mode. Moreover, the control of exposure time and frame number of MT9V032 under the passive acquisition mode is discussed. Finally, the proposed method is validated and the experimental results the two cameras show h

Keywords

• Optical-surgery navigation
• Synchronous Acquisition
• Passive sequential
• Equilong