Pitfalls of electromagnetic tracking in clinical routine using multiple or adjacent sensors

International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 268-273

  Wegner, Ingmar ^a   Teber, Dogu ^b   Hadaschik, Boris ^b   Pahernik, Sascha ^b   Hohenfellner, Markus ^b   Meinzer, Hans Peter ^a   Huber, Johannes ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy analysis; Electromagnetic tracking; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ANALYSIS; BASIC CONDITIONS; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CLINICAL ROUTINE; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; MULTI SENSOR; MULTIPLE SENSORS; PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; GENERATOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; KIDNEY BIOPSY; PHANTOM; SENSOR; UROLOGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ACCURACY ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; NAVIGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE-GUIDED BIOPSY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84883758759     PISSN: 14785951     EISSN: 1478596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1431     Document Type: Article

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