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Title
Medical robotics [electronic resource] / Achim Schweikard, Floris Ernst.
ISBN
9783319228914 electronic book
3319228919 electronic book
9783319228907
3319228900
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-22891-4 doi
Call Number
R857.R63
Dewey Decimal Classification
006.3
Summary
This book provides a thorough background to the emerging field of medical robotics. It covers the mathematics needed to understand the use of robotic devices in medicine, including but not limited to robot kinematics, hand-eye and robot-world calibration, reconstruction, registration, motion planning, motion prediction, motion correlation, motion replication and motion learning. Additionally, basic methods behind state-of-the art robots like the DaVinci system, the CyberKnife, motorized C-arms and operating microscopes as well as stereotactic frames are presented. The book is a text book for undergraduates in computer science and engineering. The main idea of the book is to motivate the methods in robotics in medical applications rather than industrial applications. The book then follows the standard path for a robotics textbook. It is thus suitable for a first course in robotics for undergraduates. It is the first textbook on medical robotics.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: 9783319228907
Introduction
Describing Spatial Position and Orientation
Robot Kinematics
Joint Velocities and Jacobi-Matrices
Navigation and Registration
Treatment Planning
Motion Correlation and Tracking
Motion Prediction
Motion Replication
Applications of Surgical Robotics
Rehabilitation, Neuroprosthetics and Brain-Machine Interfaces.