Effects of sensor orientation on AC electromagnetic tracking system accuracy in a CT scanner environment

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6918, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image guided therapy; Localization and tracking technologies; Modeling; Registration

Indexed keywords

(1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (MAPPED) LEAST SQUARES; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; CT SCANNERS; DISTORTION ERRORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES; L2 NORM; POSITION DATA; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; REFERENCE SENSORS; RIGID BODY TRANSFORMATIONS; SECOND GENERATION (2G); SENSOR ORIENTATION; THREE-AXIS POSITIONING; Z DIRECTIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CURVE FITTING; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GAIT ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; NEEDLES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SCANNING; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 44949129851     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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