Bone-Mounted Miniature Robot for Surgical Procedures: Concept and Clinical Applications

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 893-901

  Shoham, Moshe ^a   Burman, Michael ^b   Zehavi, Eli ^b   Joskowicz, Leo ^c   Batkilin, Eduard ^b   Kunicher, Yigal ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Mazor Surgical Technologies   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Image based robot registration and targeting; Medical robotics; Orthopaedics; Surgical robots

Indexed keywords

BONE; MANIPULATORS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SURGERY;

SURGICAL ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0142196069     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.817075     Document Type: Article

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