Novel computer-assisted fluoroscopy system for intraoperative guidance: Feasibility study for distal locking of femoral nails

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 122-131

  Slomczykowski, Michal A ^a,c   Hofstetter, Robert ^a   Sati, Marwan ^a   Krettek, Christian ^b   Nolte, Lutz Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c New Surgical Technologies Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C arm; Calibration; Computer assisted surgery; Distal locking; Femoral nail; Fluoroscope; Image guided navigation; Navigation; Two dimensional image registration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BONE NAILS; CADAVER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035257635     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-200102000-00009     Document Type: Article

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