Intelligent Operating Theater Using Intraoperative Open-MRI

Stepping into the operating theater: ARAV - Augmented Reality Aided Vertebroplasty

Augmented Reality (AR) for preoperative diagnostics and planning, intra operative navigation and postoperative follow-up examination has been a topic of intensive research over the last two decades. However, clinical studies showing AR technology integrated into the real clinical environment and workflow are still rare. The incorporation of an AR system as a standard tool into the real clinical...

Intelligent, Open Architecture Controller using Knowledge Server

In an ideal scenario of intelligent machine tools [22] the human mechanist was almost replaced by the controller. During the last decade many efforts have been made to get closer to this ideal scenario, but the way of information processing within the CNC did not change too much. The paper summarizes the requirements of an intelligent CNC evaluating the different research efforts done in this f...

Intraoperative MRI: a moving magnet.

Future perspectives for intraoperative MRI.

MRI-guided neurosurgery not only represents a technical challenge but a transformation from conventional hand-eye coordination to interactive navigational operations. In the future, multimodality-based images will be merged into a single model, in which anatomy and pathologic changes are at once distinguished and integrated into the same intuitive framework. The long-term goals of improving sur...

Registration for Image Integration of Intraoperative MRI and Endoscope, using MRI-compatible Manipulator

This paper is the first discussion on the registration of intraoperative MRI and endoscope using Polaris and MRI-compatible endoscope manipulator. An endoscope has been popular in minimally invasive surgery due to its less-invasive, realtime, and fine observations in body cavity. However, because its view is so limited, it's difficult to know the surrounding structures. Intraoperative MRI has b...