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Here are information and links to recent Ascension papers:

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Mark Schneider
Chuck Stevens
SPIE Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures
3D Guidance medSAFE Surgical navigation, patient monitoring, image guidance.
Development and Testing of a New Magnetic Tracking Device for Image Guidance
Don Odell SPIE Defense & Security Symposium 2006 phasorBIRD Multi uses: target acquisition, 3D localization, augmented reality. Next Generation, High Accuracy Optical Tracker for Target Acquisition and Cueing

Here also are links to recent papers in which researchers/OEMs have presented papers that prominently discuss our enabling technologies:

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Helen Alexandra Anema PhD Dissertation, University of Utrecht miniBIRD The relationship between brain function and tactile simulation and feedback. Touching upon Tactile Processing: Output dependent somatosensory functions in the brain.
Christopher Nafis, Vern Jensen, Ron von Jako SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, Volume 6918; Vizualization, Image-Guided Procedures and Modeling, February 17-23, 2008
3D Guidance medSAFE
Evaluation of the effect of operating tables on performance of electromagnetic trackers.

Method for Evaluating Compatibility of Commercial Electromagnetic (EM) Catheter Tracking Systems with Surgical and Imaging Tools


Emmanuel Wilson, Ziv Yaniv, David Lindisch, Kevin Cleary SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, Volume 6918; Vizualization, Image-Guided Procedures and Modeling, February 17-23, 2008
3D Guidance medSAFE
Factors to consider when specifying an electromagnetic tracker for image guided procedures. A Buyer's Guide to Electromagnetic Tracking Systems for Clinical Applications
LM Riek, PM Ludewig , DA Nawoczenski Spinal Cord (2008) Flock of Birds Kinematic Analysis Comperative Shoulder Kinematics during Free Standing
R.S.J. Estepar, Nicolas Stylopoulos, Kirby Vosburgh Computer Aided Surgery. Volume 12, November 6, 2007.pp.311-324 3D Guidance 3D navigation system for endoscopic and transgastric access and intervention. Scarless Surgery
Sztum, Tony, et al

Arch Phys Med Rehabil, Vol 89, November 2008

miniBIRD

Biomechanical - Rehabilitation Engineering

Yiyong Sun et al

MICCAI 2007
Medical Image Computing and Computer- Assisted Intervention Conference
http://www.miccai.org

microBIRD + 3D Guidence
3D localization of 3D-intracardiac echo (ICE) catheter tip with microBIRD tracker.
Wolfgang Wein et al MICCAI 2007
Medical Image Computing and Computer- Assisted Intervention Conference
http://www.miccai.org
microBIRD
+ 3D Guidence
Fusion of CT and ultrasound image planes.

 

 


Timothy D. Soper, et al SPIE Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures 3D Guidance 3D guidance of medical instruments for
bronchoscopy.

3D Guidance of Bronchoscope for Pulmonary Diagnosis and Intervention

A Model of Respiratory Airway Motion for Real-Time Tracking of an Ultrathin Bronchoscope

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