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Comparison of relative accuracy between a mechanical and an optical position tracker for image-guided neurosurgery
R Rohling1, P Munger, J M Hollerbach
1Dept. Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. rohling@biorobotics.mcgill.ca
Journal of Image Guided Surgery
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
An essential component in the execution of image-guided surgery is a hand-held probe whose spatial position is tracked during the procedure and displayed on a three-dimensional operative workstation. This paper describes an experiment performed in order to compare the accuracy of a mechanically linked pointing device (FARO surgical arm) and an optical position tracker (OPTOTRAK) against a "gold standard."