Advances in Medical Engineering (Hardcover, 2007)

Invited Paper.- Modelling and Imaging Electrophysiology and Contraction of the Heart.- Medical Imaging.- Influence of Corrections During Image Reconstruction on the Spatial Resolution of ClearPET Neuro.- Dynamic Reconstruction for the ClearPET(TM) Neuro Using Temporal B-Splines.- Local Compensation for Respiratory Motion in List-mode PET.- Hybrid Imaging with SPECT/CT - Presentation of 5 Cases.- The ?-MLEM Algorithm: An Iterative Reconstruction Technique for Metal Artifact Reduction in CT Images.- Quantification of Tissue Microcirculation by Dynamic MRI and CT: Comparative Analysis of Signal-Time Courses Measured in Muscle Tissue.- A Numerical Investigation of RF Heating Effects on Implants During MRI Compared to Experimental Measurements.- Real Time Neuronavigation Using 3-D Ultrasound and MRI in Patients with Brain Tumor.- Vasodynamics of the Murine Arteria Saphena by Optical Coherence Tomography.- An Imaging System in the Sub Millimeter Area.- Mutual Attraction of Oscillating Microbubbles.- A new Imaging Data Fusion System for Application in Neurosurgery and Multimodality Phantoms for System Evaluation.- CCD-Video Endoscope Subjected to X-Ray.- MRI Based Attenuation Correction for Brain PET Images.- Integration of Functional Data (PET) into Brain Surgery Planning and Neuronavigation.- Comparison of long-T2 Suppression Techniques for 3D Ultrashort Echo-Time Imaging.- Scatter Analysis of the ClearPET(TM) Neuro Using Monte Carlo Simulations.- Multi-Modality-Imaging for Radiosurgery Planning of Arteriovenous Malformations.- Image Based Analysis of Bone Graft Samples made by 3D Printing Using Conventional and Synchrotron-Radiation-Based Micro-Computed Tomography.- SPECT-CT in Maxillofacial Surgery.- Medical Image Processing.- High Performance 2D/3D-Registration for Patient Positioning in Radiotherapy.- Modelling Tumour Growth Patterns with Non-Rigid Image Registration.- Segmentation and Navigation Support of Clinical Data Sets to Simulate the Bronchoscopy and Rhinoscopy.- Analysis of Body Surfaces in a Body-Fixed Coordinate System.- Deconvolution of Medical Ultrasound Data with Consideration of the Pressure Field, the Excitation Pulse and Focussing.- Evaluation and Enhancement of a Procedure for Generating a 3D Bone Model Using Radiographs.- High-Speed-Camera Recordings and Image Sequence Analysis of Moving Heart-Valves: Experiments and First Results.- Stereoscopic 4D-Visualization of Craniofacial Soft Tissue based on Dynamic MRI and 256 Row 4D-CT.- Analysis of Tumor-Influenced Respiratory Dynamics Using Motion Artifact Reduced Thoracic 4D CT Images.- 3D-CSC: A General Segmentation Technique for Voxel Images with Application in Medicine.- An Algorithm for Automatic Stitching of CR X-ray Images.- Topology Correction in Brain Segmentation Using a Multiscale Algorithm.- Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy - Quality Assurance with the Mutual Information Index (MI).- Image Registration of Structural and Physiological MR Images of Abnormal Anatomy.- Computer-Assisted Surgery (MRNV Workshop).- Video Camera Based Navigation of a Laser Beam for Micro Surgery Bone Ablation at the Skull Base - Setup and Initial Experiments.- Ultrasound Based Navigation System for Minimal Invasive Surgery at the Lumbar Spine within OrthoMIT.- Optimization and Quantification of Aaccuracy for Rigid Point Based Registration for Computer Aided Surgery.- Virtual Reality Based Training of Lumbar Punctures Using a 6DOF Haptic Device.- Robot-Assisted 3D-Ultrasound Volume Registration for Skull Bone Surgery.- Recent Significance of Mechatronic Support Systems in General Surgery.- Registration of Intraoperative 3D Ultrasound with MR Data for the Navigated Computer Based Surgery.- Measuring the Fat Content of the Liver for Transplantation Medicine.- Biomechanics.- Influence of Modern Above-Knee Prostheses on the Biomechanics of Gait.- Spinal-Load Analysis of Patient-Transfer Activities.- Investigation of the Influence of Interbody Fusion on Biomechanics of the C