Automatic determination of optimal linear drilling trajectories for cochlear access accounting for drill-positioning error

International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-290

  Noble, Jack H ^a   Majdani, Omid ^b   Labadie, Robert F ^c   Dawant, Benoit ^a   Fitzpatrick, J Michael ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant surgery; Monte Carlo simulations; Optimal surgical trajectory; Path planning

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTION PLANNING; SURGERY; TRAJECTORIES;

AUDITORY NERVES; AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANT SURGERY; DEAF PEOPLES; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; OPTIMAL SURGICAL TRAJECTORY; POSITIONING ERROR; SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; IMPLANTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 77956527865     PISSN: 14785951     EISSN: 1478596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcs.330     Document Type: Article

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