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Title Image-guided interventions : technology and applications / Terry Peters, Kevin Cleary, editors
Published New York : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 557 pages) : illustrations
Contents Overview and History of Image-Guided Interventions -- Tracking Devices -- Visualization in Image-Guided Interventions -- Augmented Reality -- Software -- Rigid Registration -- Nonrigid Registration -- Model-Based Image Segmentation for Image-Guided Interventions -- Imaging Modalities -- MRI-Guided FUS and its Clinical Applications -- Neurosurgical Applications -- Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery -- Thoracoabdominal Interventions -- Real-Time Interactive MRI for Guiding Cardiovascular Surgical Interventions -- Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Guidance and Robot Assistance for Prostate Brachytherapy -- Radiosurgery -- Radiation Oncology -- Assessment of Image-Guided Interventions
Summary Responding to the growing demand for minimally invasive procedures, Image-Guided Interventions: Technology and Applications provides a cohesive overview of the current technological advances in image-guided surgery, and their applications in the clinical environment. Detailed images guide readers through the latest techniques, including cranial, orthopedic, and abdominal interventions. All the important technologies are covered, including localizers/tracking systems, augmented reality, rigid and non-rigid registration, radiosurgery, and high frequency ultrasound. Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field, Image-Guided Interventions: Technology and Applications is an essential reference for engineers, physicists, computer scientists, and physicians developing or using image-guided approaches for surgery and therapy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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In Springer eBooks
Subject Computer-assisted surgery.
Biomedical engineering.
Surgery, Computer-Assisted -- methods
Surgery, Computer-Assisted
Surgery, Computer-Assisted -- instrumentation
biomedical engineering.
MEDICAL -- Prosthesis.
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Ingénierie.
Computer-assisted surgery
Chirurgie assistée par ordinateur -- méthodes.
Chirurgie assistée par ordinateur -- instrumentation.
Chirurgie -- Informatique.
Form Electronic book
Author Peters, Terry M., 1948 January 5-
Cleary, Kevin R.
ISBN 9780387738581
0387738584
9780387738567
0387738568
1281493503
9781281493507
9786611493509
6611493506