Flexibility of head positioning and head fixation provided by a novel system for non-invasive maxillary fixation and frameless stereotaxy: Technical note

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 144-148

  Ortler, M ^a   Unterhofer, C ^a   Bauer, R ^a   Dobesberger, J ^a   Trinka, E ^a   Bale, R ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computer aided surgery; Frameless stereotaxy; Navigation system; VBH headholder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPILEPSY; FIXATION DEVICE; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; MAXILLA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; SUPINE POSITION; VOGELE BALE HOHNER SYSTEM;

EPILEPSY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; MAXILLA; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 69949167244     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: 14392291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1105922     Document Type: Article

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