Accurate and reliable pose recovery of distal locking holes in computer-assisted intra-medullary nailing of femoral shaft fractures: A preliminary study

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 138-151

  Zheng, Guoyan ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^a   Haschtmann, Daniel ^a   Gédet, Philippe ^a   Langlotz, Frank ^a   Nolte, Lutz P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computer assisted orthopaedic surgery; Distal locking; Femur; Fluoroscopy; Intra medullary nailing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERROR; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BONE NAILS; BONE SCREWS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34249901541     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: 10970150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10929080701388091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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