study on the clinical application of pulsed dc magnetic technology for tracking of intraoperative head motion during frameless stereotaxy脉冲直流磁技术的临床应用研究在无框架stereotaxy术中头部运动跟踪.pdf

Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Research Open Access Study on the clinical application of pulsed DC magnetic technology for tracking of intraoperative head motion during frameless stereotaxy Olaf Suess*, Silke Suess, Sven Mularski, Björn Kühn, Thomas Picht, Stefanie Hammersen, Rüdiger Stendel, Mario Brock and Theodoros Kombos Address: Department of Neurosurgery, Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany Email: Olaf Suess* - olaf.suess@charite.de; Silke Suess - silke.suess@charite.de; Sven Mularski - sven.mularski@charite.de; Björn Kühn - bjoern.kuehn@charite.de; Thomas Picht - thomas.picht@charite.de; Stefanie Hammersen - stefanie.hammersen@charite.de; Rüdiger Stendel - ruediger.stendel@charite.de; Mario Brock - mario.brock@charite.de; Theodoros Kombos - theodoros.kombos@charite.de * Corresponding author Published: 26 April 2006 Received: 22 February 2006 Accepted: 26 April 2006 Head Face Medicine2006, 2:10 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-2-10 This article is available from: /content/2/1/10 © 2006Suess et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Tracking of post-registration head motion is one of the major problems in frameless stereotaxy. Various attempts in detecting and compensating for this phenomenon rely on a fixed reference