Comparative assessment of optical tracking systems for soft tissue navigation with fiducial needles

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6918, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Maier Hein, L ^a   Franz, A ^a   Meinzer, H P ^a   Wolf, I ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal procedures; Image guided therapy; Localization and tracking technologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NAVIGATION; NEEDLES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; TISSUE; TOOLS; VISUALIZATION;

(1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENTS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES; LIGHT CONDITIONS; MEASUREMENT VOLUME; ONTARIO , CANADA; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEMS; ROBUST TRACKING; SOFT TISSUES; TOOL DESIGNS; TORONTO; TRACKING ACCURACY; TRACKING SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 44949166655     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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