Advanced virtual endoscopic pituitary surgery

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 497-506

  Neubauer, André ^a,b   Wolfsberger, Stefan ^c   Forster, Marie Thérèse ^c   Mroz, Lukas ^d   Wegenkittl, Rainer ^d   Bühler, Katja ^b  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Tiani Medgraph AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Applications; Visualization techniques and methodologies

Indexed keywords

PITUITARY SURGERY; PITUITARY TUMORS; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY; HAPTIC INTERFACES; TUMORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SURGERY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; ENDOSCOPY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 25644448144     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.70     Document Type: Article

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