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Recent Publications
  1. Laser Projection Augmented Reality System for Computer-Assisted Surgery Neil Glossop and Zhanhe Wang, Volume 1256, Pages 65-71 (June 2003)CARS 2003. Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress and Exhibition London, UK, 25 - 28 June 2003 Edited by H. U. Lemke, M.W. Vannier, K. Inamura, A.G. Farman, K. Doi and J. H.C. Reiber
  2. Needle Tracking Using the Aurora Magnetic Position Sensor Neil Glossop, K.Cleary and F. Banovac, Presented at CAOS 2002, Santa Fe NM. June 2002 Click here for a pdf version

  3. "Percutaneous Posterior Stabilization of the Spine", Neil Glossop, R. Hu, D.Young, G. Dix, S. DuPlessis published in the proceedings of MICCAI'99

  4. "Registration Methods for Percutaneous Image Guided Spine Surgery", Neil Glossop, R. Hu, G. Dix, Y. Behairy, Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, proceedings of the 13th international congress and exhibition, Paris, France, June 23-26, 1999 pp. 746-755

  5. "Assessment of Vertebral Body Motion During Spine Surgery", Neil Glossop and R. Hu, Spine, Vol. 22, pp 903-909, 1997.
  6. "Computer-Aided Pedicle Screw Placement using Frameless Stereotaxis", Neil Glossop, R. Hu, and J.A. Randle, Spine, Vol 21, pp. 2026-2034, 1996.
  7. "Accuracy of Image Guided Placement of Iliosacral Lag Screws", Richard Hu, Neil Glossop, D. Steven, and J. Randle, In Proc. 1st Joint CVRMed/MrCAS, pp. 593-6, Grenoble, France, March 19-22, 1997, Springer Verlag
  8. "Effects of Tracking Adjacent Vertebral Bodies During Image Guided Pedicle Screw Surgery", Neil Glossop and Hu, R., In Proc. 1st Joint CVRMed/MrCAS, pp. 531-40, Grenoble, France, March 19-22, 1997, Springer Verlag
  9. "Clinical Use Accuracy in Image Guided Surgery", Neil Glossop, and Richard Hu, Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, proceedings of the 11th international symposium and exhibition, Berlin, Germany June 25-28, 1997 pp. 889-893
  10. "Effect of Registration Method on Clinical Accuracy of Image Guided Pedicle Screw Surgery", Neil Glossop and R. Hu, Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, proceedings of the 11th international symposium and exhibition, Berlin, Germany June 25-28, 1997 pp. 884-888

Recent Presentations
  1. A Projection System for Enhanced Reality Computer Assisted Surgery: the "XarTrax" Neil Glossop and ZhanHe Wang MSc Presented at CAOS 2003, Marbella, Spain, June 18-21, 2003
  2. Magnetically Tracked Bone Screws A New Tool for Minimally Invasive CAOS Neil Glossop, Kevin Cleary, Gabriela Corral, James Burgess, Presented at CAOS 2003, Marbella, Spain, June 18-21, 2003
  3. Accuracy Evaluation of the AURORA Magnetic Tracking System, Neil Glossop, Fil Banovac, E. Levy, D. Lindisch, and  Kevin Cleary, Presented at CARS 2001 (Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery), 15th International Congress and Exhibition , June 27-30, 2001 ICC Berlin, Germany
  4. Accuracy of the AURORA Magnetic Tracking System, Neil Glossop, Cleary, K., Banovac, P., and Linsisch, D., Presented at the 1st CAOS International conference, Davos, Swizerland February 7-10, 2001
  5. "Registration Methods for Percutaneous Image Guided Spine Surgery", Neil Glossop, R. Hu, G. Dix, Y.Behairy,presented at Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS '99), proceedings of the 13th international congress and exhibition, Paris, France, June 23-26, 1999
  6. Percutaneous Registration Techniques for Image Guided Spine Surgery, Neil Glossop, Richard Hu, G. Dix, Y. Behairy, presented at CAOS 99, March 17-19, Davos, Switzerland
  7. Semi-automatic Registration for Image Guided Surgery, Neil Glossop, Richard Hu, G.Dix, Y.Behairy, poster presented at CAOS 99, March 17-19, Davos, Switzerland
  8. Distal Hole Targeting in Intramedulary Nails, Neil Glossop, and R. Hu, 3rd annual symposium on Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, CAOS 1997 Bern, Switzerland November 6-8 1997
  9. "Clinical Use Accuracy in Image Guided Surgery", Neil Glossop and Richard Hu, presented at CAR'97, Berlin, Germany June 25-28, 1997 (see No. 5 above for link to the text)
  10. "Effect of Registration Method on Clinical Accuracy of Image Guided Pedicle Screw Surgery", Neil Glossop, and R. Hu, presented at CAR'97, Berlin, Germany June 25-28, 1997 (see No. 6 above for a link to the text)
  11. "Clinical Accuracy in Image Guided Surgery", Neil Glossop and R. Hu, presented at the 11th International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Amsterdam, Holland 6-11 July, 1997
  12. Practical Accuracy Assessment of Image Guided Surgery, Neil D. Glossop and R.W. Hu, Presented at the First Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery conference (CAOS/USA '97), June 12-14 1997, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  13. Accuracy Limitations and Tradeoffs in CAOS, Neil D.Glossop and R.W. Hu, Presented at the First Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery conference (CAOS/USA '97), June 12-14 1997, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  14. Accuracy of Image Guide Placement of Iliosacral Lag Screws. Neil D.Glossop and R.W. Hu, Presented at the First Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery conference (CAOS/USA '97), June 12-14 1997, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  15. "Clinical Accuracy of Image Guided Surgery", Neil Glossop and R. Hu, presented at Canadian Orthopaedic Association, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 1-3 1997
  16. "Clinical Accuracy Assessment of Image Guided Surgery of the Spine", Richard Hu, and Neil Glossop, International Spine Society, Singapore June 1-5 1997
  17. "Vertebral Body Motion During Spine Surgery", presented by Neil Glossop at CAOS '96, Bern, Switzerland, Nov 3-5,1996
  18. "Accuracy of Image Guided Placement of Iliosacral Lag Screws", Neil Glossop and R. Hu, presented  at CVRMed II and MrCAS III Joint conference, Grenoble, France, March 19-22, 1997
  19. "Effects of Tracking Adjacent Vertebral Bodies During Image Guided Pedicle Screw Surgery", Neil Glossop and R. Hu, presented at, CVRMed II and MrCAS III Joint conference, Grenoble, France, March 19-22, 1997

Related Publications

Here is a  non-exhaustive bibliography of a few recent publications in the field of IGS. This will be updated. If you have some contribution of some useful article or book, please email them and they will be included shortly.

  1. Taylor, R., Lavelée, S., Burdea, G., Mösges ed., Computer Integrated Surgery: Technology and Clinical Applications, MIT press, Cambridge MA, 1996
  2. Troccaz, J., Grimson, E., and Mösges, R., ed., CVRMed-MRCAS'97 First joint conference on computer vision, virtual reality and robotics in Medicine, and Medical robotics and Computer-assisted surgery Grenoble Mar 19-23, Proceedings, Springer, 1997
  3. The Journal of Image Guided Surgery (or under it's new name Computer Aided Surgery) is useful.  This magazine is the voice of "ISCAS", the international society for computer aided surgery.
  4. Kalphas, I., Kormos, D., Murphy, M., McKenzie, R., Barnett, G., Bell, G., Steiner, C., Trimble, M., and Weisenberger, J., Application of frameless stereotaxy to pedicle screw fixation of the spine., J. Neurosurg. 83:641-647, 1995
  5. Nolte, L-P, Zamorano, L., Visarius, H., Berlemann, U., Langlotz, F., and Schwarzenbach, O., Clinical evaluation of a system for precision enhancement in spine surgery., Clin. Biomech. 10:293-303, 1995
  6. Nolte, L-P, Zamorano, L., Jiang, Z., Wang, Q., Langlotz, F., and Berlemann, U., Image-guided insertion of transpedicular screws., Spine 20:497-500 (1995)
  7. Marcus, L. F., M. Corti, A. Loy, G. J. P. Naylor and D. E. Slice. (ed.) Advances in Morphometrics. NATO ASI Series A: Life Sciences vol. 284. Plenum: New York, 1996
  8. Simon, D., O'Toole,E., Blackwell, M., Morgan,F., GiGiolia,A., Kanade,T., Accuracy validation in image-guided orthopaedic surgery. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surger, MRCAS, Baltimore, Nov 1995. pp. 185-192.
  9. Zinreich, S.J., Tebo, S., Long, D., Brem, H., Mattox, D., Loury, M., Van der Kolk, C., Koch, W., Kennedy, D., Bryan, R., Frameless Stereotaxic integration of CT imaging data: accuracy and initial applications. Radiology 188: 735-742 (1993)
  10. Barnett,G., Kormos, D., Steiner, C., Weisenberger, R., Use of a frameless, armless stereotactic wand for brain tumour localization with two-dimensional and three dimensional neuroimaging. Neurosurgery 33: 674-678 (1993)
  11. Watanabe, E., Mayanagi, Y., Kosugi, Y., Manaka, S., Takakura, K., Open surgery assisted by the Neuronavigatior, a stereotactic articulated sensitive arm. Neurosurgery 28:792-800 (1991)
  12. Watanabe, E., Watanabe, T., Manaka, S., Mayanagi,Y, and Takakura,K, Three dimensional digitizer (Neuronavigator):New equipment for computed tomography-guided stereotaxic surgery. Surg. Neurol. 24:543-7 (1987)
  13. Grunkel, A., Freysinger, W., Thumfart, W., Pototschnig, Complete sphenoidectomy and computer-assisted surgery, Acta oto-rhino-laryngologica belg. 49:257-261 (1995)
  14. Reinhardt, H., Meyer, H., Amrein, A computer assisted device for the intra-operative CT-correlated localisation of brain tumours, Eur. surg. Res 20:51-58 (1988)
  15. Laborde, G., Gilsbach,J., Harders,A., Moesges, R., and Krybus, W, Computer assisted localizer for planning of surgery and intra-operative orientation, Acta Neurochir., 119:166-170 (1992)
  16. Kato, A., Yoshimine, T., Hayakawa,T., Tomita, Y., Ikeda,T., Mitomo,M., Harada,K., and Mogami,H., A frameless, armless navigational system for computer-assisted neurosurgery., J. Neurosurg 74:845-9, 1991
  17. Barnett,G., Donald,M, Kormos,D., Steiner,C., and Weisenburger,J., Intra-operative localization using an armless, frameless stereotactic wand. J.Neurosurg 78:510-14, 1993
  18. Rohling,R., Munger, P., Hollerbach,J., and Peters,T., Comparison of relative accuracy between a mechanical and an optical position tracker for image guided neurosurgery., MRCAS 1994.
  19. Hassfeld,S., Zoeller,J., Wirtz,C., Albert, F., Knauth,M., and Muehling,J., Computergestuetzte Chirurgie an der Schaeldelbasis., Dtsch. Z. Mund Kiefer GesichtsChir 19, 216-220,1990
  20. Amiot,L-P, Labelle, H., de Guise, J., Sati, M., Brodeur, P., Rivard, C-H, Computer assisted pedicular screw fixation: a feasibility study., Spine, 1996
  21. Rohling, R., Munger, P., Hollerbach, J., and Peters,T., Comparison of relative accuracy between a mechanical and an optical position tracker for image-guided neurosurgery, J. Image Guided Surg., 1:30-34 (1995)
  22. Fortin,T., Coudert, J.., Champbeboux, Sautot,P., and Lavalleé, S., Computer-assisted dental implant surgery using computed tomography, J. Image Guided Surg., 1:53-58 (1995)
  23. Nolte,L-P, Visarius,H, Arm, E, Langlotz, F., Schwarzenbach, O., and Zamorano, L., Computer-aided fixation of spinal implants, J. Image Guided Surg., 1:88-93 (1995)
  24. American Soc. for Testing and Materials (ATSM), Standard Specification for Image-Interactive Stereotactic and Localization Systems, F1719-96, Oct. 1996
  25. American Soc. for Testing and Materials (ATSM), Performance specification for cerebral stereotactic instruments, F1266, Annual book of ASTM Standards, Vol 13.01
  26. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ASME B89.1.12M-1990 specification, Methods for Performance Evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Machines (1991)
  27. Castro, W., Halm, H., Jerosch,J., Malms,J., Steinbeck,J., and Blasius,S., Accuracy of pedicle scre placement in lumbar vertebrae, Spine 1996;21:1320-1324
  28. Farber, G., Place, H., Mazur, R., Jones, D., Damiano,T., Accuracy of pedicle screw placement in lumbar fusions by plain radiographs and computed tomography, Spine 1995;20:1494-1499
  29. Meter,J., Polly,D., Miller,D., Popovic,N., Ondra,S., A method for radiographic evaluation of pedicle screw violation of the vertebral endplate. Spine 1996;21:1587-1592
  30. Drake, J., Rutka, J., Hoffmann, H., ISG Viewing Wand system., Neurosurg 34, 1094 (1994)
  31. Zylka, W, Sabczynski, J., and Schmidt, G., Calculation of the Application Accuracy of Stereotactic Frame Systems, Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, proceedings of the 11th international symposium and exhibition, Berlin, Germany June 25-28, 1997 pp. 866-871
  32. Lemke, H, Vannier, M., and Inamura, K. ed., CAR'97: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, proceedings of the 11th international symposium and exhibition, Berlin, Germany June 25-28, 1997,  Elsevier (Amsterdam)
  33. Troccaz, J., Grimson, E., and Mösges,R. ed., Proceedings of CVRMed-MRCAS'97:First Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine and Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, Grenoble, France, March 19-22, 1997, Springer (Berlin)

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