AcuBot: A Robot for Radiological Interventions

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 927-930

  Stoianovici, Dan ^a   Cleary, Kevin ^b   Patriciu, Alexandra ^c   Mazilu, Dumitru ^a   Stanimir, Alexandru ^d   Craciunoiu, Nicolae ^d   Watson, Vance ^b   Kavoussi, Louis ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Image guided surgical intervention; Robot assisted surgery; Surgical robot

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MANIPULATORS; RADIOLOGY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SURGERY;

SURGICAL ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0242334659     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.817072     Document Type: Article

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