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Open AccessRetrospective in silico evaluation of optimized preoperative planning for temporal bone surgery
Robot-assisted surgery at the temporal bone utilizing a flexible drilling unit would allow safer access to clinical targets such as the cochlea or the internal auditory canal by navigating along nonlinear traj...
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Open Accessi3PosNet: instrument pose estimation from X-ray in temporal bone surgery
Accurate estimation of the position and orientation (pose) of surgical instruments is crucial for delicate minimally invasive temporal bone surgery. Current techniques lack in accuracy and/or line-of-sight con...
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High-precision evaluation of electromagnetic tracking
Navigation in high-precision minimally invasive surgery (HP-MIS) demands high tracking accuracy in the absence of line of sight (LOS). Currently, no tracking technology can satisfy this requirement. Electromag...
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Toward an automatic preoperative pipeline for image-guided temporal bone surgery
Minimally invasive surgery is often built upon a time-consuming preoperative step consisting of segmentation and trajectory planning. At the temporal bone, a complete automation of these two tasks might lead t...
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Robotic cochlear implantation: feasibility of a multiport approach in an ex vivo model
A recent clinical trial has shown the feasibility of robotic cochlear implantation. The electrode was inserted through the robotically drilled tunnel and an additional access through the external auditory cana...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimizing Clearance of Bézier Spline Trajectories for Minimally-Invasive Surgery
Preoperative planning of nonlinear trajectories is a key element in minimally-invasive surgery. Interpolating between start and goal of an intervention while circumnavigating risk structures provides the neces...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generalized Trajectory Planning for Nonlinear Interventions
Minimally invasive procedures with flexible instruments such as endoscopes, needles or drilling units are becoming more and more common. Their automated insertion will be standard across several applications i...
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Multistep translation and cultural adaptation of the Penn acoustic neuroma quality-of-life scale for German-speaking patients
Monitoring the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients with vestibular schwannoma (VS) has garnered increasing interest. In German-speaking countries, there is no disease-specific questionnaire ava...
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Minimally invasive, multi-port approach to the lateral skull base: a first in vitro evaluation
The aim of the study was to validate a minimally invasive, multi-port approach to the internal auditory canal at the lateral skull base on a cadaver specimen.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Automatic Path Planning for Multi-port Minimally-Traumatic Lateral Skull Base Surgery
We investigate a multi-port minimally-traumatic approach for lateral skull base surgery. Our long-term goal is to automatically determine the best combination of three paths from the skull surface to the surgi...
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Open AccessThe release of IL-31 and IL-13 after nasal allergen challenge and their relation to nasal symptoms
IL-31, a recently discovered member of the gp130/IL-6 cytokine family, is mainly expressed by human mast cells and T helper type 2 cells. IL-31 is a key trigger of atopic dermatitis. Recent studies also sugges...
