A newly developed stereotactic robot with detachable drive for neurosurgery

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1496, Issue , 1998, Pages 215-222

  Masamune, Ken ^a   Ji, L H ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Dohi, Takeyoshi ^a   Iseki, Hiroshi ^b   Takakura, Kintomo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEEDLES; NEUROSURGERY; ROBOTS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT; MECHANICAL COMPONENTS; PRECISE POSITIONING; PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TORQUE TRANSMISSION;

ROBOTIC SURGERY;

EID: 84947764897     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0056204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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