title: Testing the precision of stereotactic planning systems.
abstract: The implementation of effective methods of testing the precision of computations, is essential for the development of medical systems, such as the stereotactic planning software for neurosurgery. During the development of our planning system we designed, in addition to the traditional phantom test, some tests based on digitally constructed images. These tests give quantitative and qualitative measurement of the precision and stability of the calculations, and are easy to implement and isolate the program error from the mechanical and image acquisition errors. The verification of our software shows good precision in coordinates calculation and a significant impact of pixel size and interscan spacing on the precision.
authors.affiliation: International Center for Neurological Restoration, Havana, Cuba. atorres@infomed.sld.cu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres Montoya
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000601:surgery; D002138:Calibration; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012984:Software; D012986:Software Validation; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*