Medical Robotics

• Main Authors: Schweikard, Achim (Author), Ernst, Floris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Surgical oncology.; Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.; Surgical Oncology.

This book provides a thorough background to the emerging field of medical robotics. It covers the mathematics needed to understand the use of robotic devices in medicine, including but not limited to robot kinematics, hand-eye and robot-world calibration, reconstruction, registration, motion plannin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Describing Spatial Position and Orientation
• Robot Kinematics
• Joint Velocities and Jacobi-Matrices
• Navigation and Registration
• Treatment Planning
• Motion Correlation and Tracking
• Motion Prediction
• Motion Replication
• Applications of Surgical Robotics
• Rehabilitation, Neuroprosthetics and Brain-Machine Interfaces.