A buyer's guide to electromagnetic tracking systems for clinical applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6918, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wilson, Emmanuel ^a   Yaniv, Ziv ^a   Lindisch, David ^a   Cleary, Kevin ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy analysis; Electromagnetic tracking; Image guided therapy; Usability study

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PIGMENTS; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING SYSTEMS; FIELD GENERATORS; IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES; OF SENSORS; ONTARIO , CANADA; SYSTEM INTERACTIONS; TRACKING ACCURACY; VERMONT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 44949186602     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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