Surgery – Radioactive substance applied to body for therapy
Patent
1996-12-02
1999-03-09
Lacyk, John P.
Surgery
Radioactive substance applied to body for therapy
A61B 600
Patent
active
058792813
ABSTRACT:
A positioning system for use in radiosurgery including a frame rigidly attachable to a part of a patient, a positioner operative to move the frame together with the part of the patient rigidly attached thereto, in at least one of six degrees of freedom, sensing apparatus operative to measure position and orientation of the frame with reference to a center of rotation, a motion controller operative to control the position and the orientation of the frame relative to the center of rotation in a time domain according to a predetermined formula.
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Gilbert Samuel
Lacyk John P.
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