A self-developed and constructed robot for minimally invasive cochlear implantation

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 355-360

  Bell, Brett ^a   Stieger, Christof ^a   Gerber, Nicolas ^a   Arnold, Andreas ^a   Nauer, Claude ^b   Hamacher, Volkmar ^c   Kompis, Martin ^a   Nolte, Lutz ^a   Caversaccio, Marco ^a   Weber, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Phonak Acoustic Implants ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computer aided surgery; image guided; key hole; navigation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; ELECTRODE; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPLANTATION; MASTOID; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; TEMPORAL BONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 84858993423     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2011.642813     Document Type: Article

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