A Novel Technique for Distal Locking of Intramedullary Nail Based on Two Non-constrained Fluoroscopic Images and Navigation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1202-1212

  Leloup, Thierry ^a   El Kazzi, Wissam ^b   Schuind, Frédéric ^c   Warzée, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b NONE

^c ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computer aided orthopedic surgery; distal targeting; fluoroscopy based navigation; intramedullary nailing; three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 54449098074     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.920602     Document Type: Article

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