— In order to assist surgeons during surgery on moving organs, e.g. minimally invasive beating heart bypass surgery, a master-slave system which synchronizes surgical instruments...
Thomas Bader, Alexander Wiedemann, Kathrin Roberts...
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Accurate estimation and tracking of dynamic tissue deformation is important to motion compensation, intra-operative surgical guidance and navigation in minimally invasive surgery. ...
The effectiveness and clinical benefits of image guided surgery are
well established for procedures where there is manageable tissue motion. In
minimally invasive cardiac, gastro...
The anatomy, function and hemodynamics of the aortic and mitral valves are known to be strongly interconnected. An integrated quantitative and visual assessment of the aortic-mitra...
Razvan Ioan Ionasec, Ingmar Voigt, Bogdan George...