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| Title: Towards direct head navigation for robot-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation using 3D laserscans: idea, setup and feasibility. <em>Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society</em> |
| Written by: L. Richter and R. Bruder and A. Schlaefer and A. Schweikard |
| in: <em>Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc</em>. (2010). |
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| on pages: 2283-2286 |
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| DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627660 |
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Abstract: Direct tracking is more robust than tracking that is based on additional markers. 3D laser scans can be used for direct tracking because they result in a 3D data set of surface points of the scanned object. For head\-navigated robotized systems, it is crucial to know where the patient\'s head is positioned relatively to the robot. We present a novel method to use a 3D laserscanner for direct head navigation in the robotized TMS system that places a coil on the patient\'s head using an industrial robot. First experimental results showed a translational error <= 2mm in the robot hand\-eye\-calibration with the laserscanner. The rotational error was 0.75\° and the scaling error <= 0.001. Furthermore, we found that the error of a scanned head to a reference head image was <= 0.2mm using ICP. These results have shown that a direct head navigation is feasible for the robotized TMS system. Additional effort has to be made in future systems to speed up the compution time for real time capability