Minimal invasive surgery gets more and more important because of its advantages for patients and the health system. Because the surgeon has reduced sight, patient or organ movements are not always recognized. Due to this movements, the necessary treatment or biopsy can affect healthy tissue instead of sick one. Computer-aided image-based navigation systems supports the surgeon to identify such movements. These navigation systems uses pre-operative 3D computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) images and compare them to real-time 2D ultrasound (US) images from the endoscope head....
Minimal invasive surgery gets more and more important because of its advantages for patients and the health system. Because the surgeon has reduced si...
