An Articulated Neurosurgical Navigation System Using MRI and CT Images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 147-152

  Kosugi, Yukio ^a   Watanabe, Eiju ^b   Goto, Junichi ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^b   Yoshimoto, Satonobu ^b   Takakura, Kintomo ^b   Ikebe, Jun ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; ROBOTICS - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ARTICULATED NEUROSURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM; ARTICULATED POINTING ARM; GANTRY COORDINATE SYSTEM; MRI AND CT IMAGES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; ROBOTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0023965559     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.1353     Document Type: Article

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