title: Establishing navigated control in head surgery.
abstract: Navigated Control (NC) describes an additional control for a tracked power driven instrument within a preoperatively segmented work space. In head surgery the authors first implemented NC in functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Recently the feasibility of NC for surgery on the petrosal bone is evaluated. NC in FESS and in petrosal bone surgery may reduce the risk of comorbidity and the time effort compared to the conventional surgical interventions.
authors.affiliation: BMBF-Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery ICCAS, University of Leipzig, Germany. Mathias.Hofer@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hofer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Strauss
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koulechov
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Strauss
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stopp
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pankau
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Korb
authors.forename: Ch
authors.initials: Ch
authors.lastname: Trantakis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meixensberger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dietz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lüth
mesh_terms: D004724:Endoscopy; D005858:Germany; D008416:Mastoid / Q000601:surgery*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted