Design, calibration and evaluation of a robotic needle-positioning system for small animal imaging applications

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1863-1878

  Waspe, Adam C ^a,b   Cakiroglu, H Jason ^a,b   Lacefield, James C ^a,b   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

NEEDLE-POSITIONING ACCURACY; REMOTE CENTRE OF MOTION (RCM); ROLL AXIS PLANE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NEEDLE; NEEDLE PLACEMENT DEVICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; TUMOR;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEEDLES; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34247508226     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/7/007     Document Type: Article

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