Abstract – This paper presents a real-time 3D ultrasoundguided robotic system, designed to autonomously navigate a surgical instrument to surgeon-specified target points. The sys...
Jeffrey A. Stoll, Paul M. Novotny, Robert D. Howe,...
Abstract. Real-time 3D ultrasound can enable new image-guided surgical procedures, but high data rates prohibit the use of traditional tracking techniques. We present a new method ...
Paul M. Novotny, Jeffrey A. Stoll, Nikolay V. Vasi...
— This paper presents a robotic system capable of using three-dimensional ultrasound to guide a surgical instrument to a tracked target location. Tracking of both the surgical in...
Paul M. Novotny, Jeffrey A. Stoll, Pierre E. Dupon...
During a neurosurgical intervention, the brain tissues shift and warp. In order to keep an accurate positioning of the surgical instruments, one has to estimate this deformation f...