Tracking devices

Image-Guided Interventions: Technology and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-44

  Birkfellner, Wolfgang ^a   Hummel, Johann ^a   Wilson, Emmanuel ^b   Cleary, Kevin ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 61349187755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73858-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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