On the feasibility of a moving support for surgery on the beating heart

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

Volumn 1679, Issue , 1999, Pages 1088-1098

  Trejos, A L ^a   Salcudean, S E ^a   Sassani, F ^a   Lichtenstein, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HEART; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SURGERY;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING; MASTER-SLAVE SYSTEMS; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; STATIONARY PLATFORMS; STEREO VISION SYSTEM; TASK COMPLETION TIME; THREE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; TRACKING PERFORMANCE;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 84957084395     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10704282_118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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