An optical navigator for brain surgery

Computer

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 48-54

  Adams, Ludwig ^a   Knepper, Achim ^a   Meyer Ebrecht, Dietrich ^a,c,d,e   Rüger, Rainer ^a,b,e   Van Der Brug, Willem ^b,e,f  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Measurement Technology Institute

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPES; NEUROSURGERY; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AUTOFOCUS MICROSCOPE; BRAIN TUMOR SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; EASY GUIDE NEURO; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NAVIGATION AID; NUCLEAR MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COORDINATE MEASUREMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029732976     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.481465     Document Type: Article

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