Evaluation of portable CT scanners for otologic image-guided surgery

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-321

  Balachandran, Ramya ^a   Schurzig, Daniel ^a   Fitzpatrick, J Michael ^b   Labadie, Robert F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CereTom; Fixed base scanner; fpVCT; Image guided surgery; Portable CT scanners; Translating base scanner; xCAT

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; EAR SURGERY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SKULL;

EID: 84862992851     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-011-0639-4     Document Type: Article

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