Radiation dose reduction in computer assisted navigation for functional endoscopic sinus surgery--cadaver head experiments and clinical implementation
Author(s) -
Patrick Dubach,
A. Eichenberger,
Marco Caversaccio
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
rhinology journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.275
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1996-8604
pISSN - 0300-0729
DOI - 10.4193/rhino09.175
Subject(s) - medicine , cadaver , radiological weapon , nuclear medicine , radiation dose , reduction (mathematics) , radiology , endoscopic sinus surgery , medical physics , head and neck , surgery , geometry , mathematics
Computed tomography based navigation for endoscopic sinus surgery is inflationary used despite of major public concern about iatrogenic radiation induced cancer risk. Studies on dose reduction for CAS-CT are almost nonexistent. We validate the use of radiation dose reduced CAS-CT for clinically applied surface registration.
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