Comparative study of application accuracy of two frameless neuronavigation systems: Experimental error assessment quantifying registration methods and clinically influencing factors

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-228

  Paraskevopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,c   Unterberg, Andreas ^a   Metzner, Roland ^a   Dreyhaupt, Jens ^a   Eggers, Georg ^a   Wirtz, Christian Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Frameless stereotaxy; Image guided surgery; Neuronavigation; Registration; Surface matching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTIVE NEURONAVIGATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; PASSIVE NEURONAVIGATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; SIMULATION; SKIN SURFACE;

COMPUTERS; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958213414     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-010-0302-5     Document Type: Article

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