Electromagnetic Tracking in Medicine-A Review of Technology, Validation, and Applications

• Published in: IEEE transactions on medical imaging Vol. 33; no. 8; pp. 1702 - 1725
• Main Authors: Franz, Alfred M., Haidegger, Tamas, Birkfellner, Wolfgang, Cleary, Kevin, Peters, Terry M., Maier-Hein, Lena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.08.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Biomedical imaging; Computer-assisted interventions (CAI); Diagnostic Imaging - instrumentation; Diagnostic Imaging - methods; Electromagnetic Phenomena; electromagnetic tracking (EMT); Electromagnetics; Error compensation; Generators; Humans; image-guided therapy (IGT); intraoperative surgical navigation; Lists; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic sensors; magnetic tracking; Medical; Medical instruments; Patients; Position (location); Sensor systems; State of the art; Therapy, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Therapy, Computer-Assisted - methods; Tracking

Object tracking is a key enabling technology in the context of computer-assisted medical interventions. Allowing the continuous localization of medical instruments and patient anatomy, it is a prerequisite for providing instrument guidance to subsurface anatomical structures. The only widely used te...