Target registration and target positioning errors in computer-assisted neurosurgery: Proposal for a standardized reporting of error assessment

International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 355-365

  Widmann, Gerlig ^a   Stoffner, Rudolf ^a   Sieb, Michael ^a   Bale, Reto ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accuracy evaluation; Computer assisted neurosurgery; Frameless stereotaxy; Image guided surgery; Skull phantom

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; ERROR STATISTICS; NEUROSURGERY;

ACCURACY EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED; COMPUTER ASSISTED NEUROSURGERY; FRAMELESS STEREOTAXY; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; PHANTOMS; POSITIONING ERROR; SKULL PHANTOM; STEREOTAXY; TARGET POSITIONING;

PHANTOMS;

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY POSITION; CADAVER; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 73449139755     PISSN: 14785951     EISSN: 1478596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcs.271     Document Type: Review

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