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MICCAI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Virtual Fixtures for Robotic Cardiac Surgery
We are developing virtual fixtures for the internal mammary artery (IMA) harvest portion of robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft procedures. A preoperative CT scan will be p...
Shinsuk Park, Robert D. Howe, David F. Torchiana
MICCAI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Intraoperative Tracking of Anatomical Structures Using Fluoroscopy and a Vascular Balloon Catheter
We present preliminary work on a novel technique for tracking anatomical structures during medical procedures. A vascular balloon catheter is placed within a vessel in the structur...
Michael Rosenthal, Susan Weeks, Stephen R. Aylward...
MICCAI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Optimal Port Placement in Robot-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
A computer-based algorithm is being developed which, using preoperative images, provides the surgeon with a list of feasible port triplets ranked according to tool dexterity and en...
Shaun Selha, Pierre E. Dupont, Robert D. Howe, Dav...
MICCAI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Toward Application of Virtual Reality to Visualization of DT-MRI Volumes
Abstract. We describe a virtual reality application for visualizing tensorvalued volume data acquired with diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). We have prototyped...
Song Zhang, Çagatay Demiralp, M. DaSilva, D...
MICCAI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Magnified Real-Time Tomographic Reflection
Real Time Tomographic Reflection (RTTR) permits in situ visualization of ultrasound images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive procedures. The meth...
George D. Stetten, Vikram S. Chib