Prospects in percutaneous ablative targeting: Comparison of a computer-assisted navigation system and the AcuBot robotic system

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1269-1272

  Pollock, Richard ^a   Mozer, Pierre ^a   Guzzo, Thomas J ^a   Marx, Jonathan ^a   Matlaga, Brian ^a   Petrisor, Doru ^a   Vigaru, Bogdan ^a   Badaan, Shadie ^a   Stoianovici, Dan ^a   Allaf, Mohamad E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED NAVIGATION SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOUROLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; NEEDLE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC NAVIGATION SYSTEM; ABLATION THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955217653     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2009.0482     Document Type: Article

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