Case Report: Fusion of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) images for image-guided endoscopic navigation in maxillofacial surgery: Clinical application of a new technique

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 322-328

  Feichtinger, Matthias ^a   Aigner, Reingard Maria ^b   Santler, Gert ^a   Kärcher, Hans ^a  

^a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ^*  (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

endoscopic navigation; image guided surgery; minimal invasive surgery; PEt CT image fusion

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGEON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35148836759     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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