Image-Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality
Abstract
Surgeons and interventional radiologists benefit from intraoperative guidance to deliver the treatment precisely, as it was planned. Printouts from a planning system are often of limited value, since they are hard to translate to the intraoperative situation.
This chapter focuses on techniques that are used during an intervention. Hence, they are called intraoperative techniques. In intraoperative visualization, a lot of research is motivated by the challenges of minimally-invasive surgery and interventions, such as needle insertion, laparoscopic and endoscopic interventions. In particular, we introduce augmented reality (AR) techniques where relevant information from preoperative ...
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