Image-guided surgery and medical robotics in the cranial area

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Widmann, Gerlig ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Image guided surgery; Image to patient registration accuracy; Mechatronic surgical tools; Medical robotics

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SKILL; SKULL; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 37249042722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.3.1.e11     Document Type: Review

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