Technologies for augmented reality systems: realizing ultrasound-guided needle biopsies
SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Marker Tracking and HMD Calibration for a Video-Based Augmented Reality Conferencing System
IWAR '99 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE and ACM International Workshop on Augmented Reality
Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Augmented tele-existence
Virtual Environments: A hybrid tracking method for surgical augmented reality
Computers and Graphics
Mixed-Reality Simulation of Minimally Invasive Surgeries
IEEE MultiMedia
Alternative online extrinsic calibration techniques for minimally invasive surgery
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Indirect Tracking to Reduce Occlusion Problems
ISVC '08 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, Part II
Technical Section: Visual computing for medical diagnosis and treatment
Computers and Graphics
Augmented reality interaction for semiautomatic volume classification
EGVE'05 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments
Model-based hybrid tracking for medical augmented reality
EGVE'06 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments
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Utilizing augmented reality for applications in medicine has been a topic of intense research for several years. A number of challenging tasks need to be addressed when designing a medical AR system. These include the import and management of medical datasets and preoperatively created planning data, the registration of the patient with respect to a global coordinate system, and accurate tracking of the camera used in the AR setup as well as the respective surgical instruments. Most research systems rely on specialized hardware or algorithms for realizing augmented reality in medicine. Such base technologies can be expensive or very time-consuming to implement. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach of building a surgical AR system by harnessing existing, commercially available equipment for image guided surgery (IGS). We describe the prototype of an augmented reality application, which receives all necessary information from a device for intraoperative navigation.