Percutaneous inner-ear access via an image-guided industrial robot system

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 633-649

  Baron, S ^a   Eilers, H ^a   Munske, B ^a   Toennies, J L ^b   Balachandran, R ^c   Labadie, R F ^c   Ortmaier, T ^a   Webster, R J ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implantation; Image guided industrial robot systems; Kalman filter based data fusion; Optical tracking; Percutaneous inner ear access; Petrous apex access

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE POSITION; BRAIN TISSUE; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; EAR SURGERY; HIGH-ACCURACY; IMAGE-GUIDED; IMAGE-GUIDED INDUSTRIAL ROBOT SYSTEMS; INTERVENTIONAL; OPTICAL TRACKING; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEMS; PATIENT SAFETY; ROBOT CALIBRATION; ROBOT POSITIONS; SENSORY INFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL ROBOTS; INNER EAR; PETROUS APEX ACCESS; SIMPLIFIED CALIBRATIONS;

CALIBRATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DATA FUSION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INFORMATION FUSION; KALMAN FILTERS; SURGERY; ROBOTS;

TRACKING (POSITION); SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EAR SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INNER EAR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; EAR, INNER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77952347242     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544119JEIM781     Document Type: Article

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