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Real-time Tracking of the Lumbar Spine with Surgical Navigation System and Biomechanical Modeling

Sarrami, Saman | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 44867 (08)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Mechanical Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Behzadipour, Saeed; Farahmand, Farzam
  7. Abstract:
  8. One of the most important parts of the human’s body is spine. Its anatomy is very complex and has many degrees off freedom. Many kinds of diseases might occur for this part. One of the ways of treatment for this part is surgery that it has different types. In the past decades the surgeries have been done very simple without the help of computers or robots. In other words the surgeon did the surgery with no use of lateral tools. For this reason the error in those surgeries was high. Doing a surgery on the spine level needs a special attention. As the technology improved very much in the last 2 decades the amount of errors has been reduced and various kinds of techniques came in the scene to help the surgeons. For example different kinds of robots invented in order to help the doctors. One of the ways of increasing the accuracy of the surgery is using the Navigation System. This system includes a monitor, a special tool, a special camera and software. By using this system the surgeon can increase the exactness of the surgery. In this project, first a model of the lumbar spine has been made in the Matlab software. Then the needed information has been gathered from a phantom of the lumbar spine. After this step, the data processing has been done. In the last step the errors has been calculated and the discussion has been done
  9. Keywords:
  10. Real Time Tracking ; Lumbar Vertebral ; Navigation ; Spine Surgery ; Lumbar Spine Portion ; Biomechanical Modeling

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