Navigated laparoscopic ultrasound in abdominal soft tissue surgery: technological overview and perspectives.
Thomas LangøSinara VijayanAnna RethyCecilie VåpenstadOle Vegard SolbergRonald MårvikGjermund JohnsenToril A. Nagelhus HernesPublished in: Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. (2012)
Keyphrases
- soft tissue
- minimally invasive surgery
- surgical procedures
- elastic properties
- surgical instruments
- laparoscopic surgery
- medical images
- imaging modalities
- soft tissue deformation
- finite element
- automatic segmentation
- image guided surgery
- deformable models
- magnetic resonance
- tissue deformation
- surgical tools
- robotic assisted
- image registration
- ultrasound images
- robot assisted
- maxillofacial surgery
- transrectal ultrasound
- operating room
- surgical simulation
- minimally invasive
- manual segmentation
- intraoperative
- degrees of freedom
- ct images
- medical imaging
- medical image analysis
- anatomical structures
- prostate brachytherapy
- ultrasound probe
- mass spring
- mass spring model
- ct data
- needle insertion
- real time
- image guided
- image analysis
- pattern recognition