Free-hand CT-based electromagnetically guided interventions: Accuracy, efficiency and dose usage

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 226-233

  Penzkofer, Tobias ^a,b   Bruners, Philipp ^a,b   Isfort, Peter ^a,b   Schoth, Felix ^b   Günther, Rolf W ^b   Schmitz Rode, Thomas ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; dose reduction; electromagnetic tracking; Interventional radiology; navigation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960932670     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2011.553256     Document Type: Article

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