MRI-guided robotics at the U of Houston: Evolving methodologies for interventions and surgeries

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5637-5640

  Tsekos, Nikolaos V ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EQUIPMENT; FORECASTING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROBOTICS; UNITED STATES;

FORECASTING; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEXAS;

EID: 84903854989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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