Automatic focusing and robotic scanning mechanism for precision laser ablation in neurosurgery

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 325-330

  Liao, Hongen ^a   Noguchi, Masafumi ^a   Maruyama, Takashi ^b   Muragaki, Yoshihiro ^b   Iseki, Hiroshi ^b   Kobayashi, Etsuko ^a   Sakuma, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic focus; Fluorescence; Laser ablation; Medical robotics; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

5-AMINOLEVULINIC ACID (5-ALA); AUTOMATIC FOCUS; AUTOMATIC FOCUSING; BRAIN SURFACE; BRAIN TUMORS; INTRA-OPERATIVE; LASER ABLATION SYSTEMS; LASER SCANNING; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; POSITION INFORMATION; SCANNING MECHANISMS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR RESECTION;

FLUORESCENCE; LASER ABLATION; LASER EXCITATION; NEUROSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SCANNING; TUMORS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651480077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5652067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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