Image-Guided Interventions Technology and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Peters, Terry (Editor), Cleary, Kevin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Radiology.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomedical Engineering.; Imaging / Radiology.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

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 th...

Table of 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.