Development of an accuracy assessment phantom for surgical navigators

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1517-1520

  Koivukangas, Tapani ^a   Katisko, Jani ^b   Nevala, Kalervo ^a   Louhisalmi, Yrjö ^a   Koivukangas, John ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Technical Research Centre of Finland ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Navigation; Phantom; Protocol; Surgical

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HOSPITALS; NAVIGATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SURGERY;

ACCURACY; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION PHANTOM; CALIBRATION POINTS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS; PHANTOM; SURGICAL;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 77951039678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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