Robotic neurological surgery applications: Accuracy and consistency or pure fantasy?

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-93

  Eljamel, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image guidance; Neuronavigation; Robotics; Stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAMERA; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; EPILEPSY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 60449095310     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000202974     Document Type: Article

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