Quantification of AC electromagnetic tracking system accuracy in a CT scanner environment

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6509, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Shen, Eric ^a   Shechter, Guy ^a   Kruecker, Jochen ^a   Stanton, Douglas ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominal procedures; Electromagnetic tracking; Image guided therapy; Localization; Registration; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; HUMAN ANATOMY; IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEEDLES; ROBOTICS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 35148813845     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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