Compensating for Quasi-periodic Motion in Robotic Radiosurgery

• Main Author: Ernst, Floris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Surgical oncology.; Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Surgical Oncology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Compensating for Quasi-periodic Motion in Robotic Radiosurgery outlines the techniques needed to accurately track and compensate for respiratory and pulsatory motion during robotic radiosurgery. The algorithms presented within the book aid in the treatment of tumors that move during respiration. In...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Motion Compensation in Robotic Radiosurgery
• Signal Processing
• On the outside: prediction of human respiratory and pulsatory motion
• Going inside: correlation between external and internal respiratory motion
• Conclusion
• Appendix.