...Xiaodong Ma; Shan Jiang; Zhiyong Yang; Guobin Zhang; Zhonghua Yu; Shude Chai Accurate location of the puncture-guiding template, including the position and orientation, is essential for surgeons to implant radioactive seeds into an internal tumor in lung cancer brachytherapy. The objective...

... angular accuracies of 0.24 deg , 0.38 deg , and 0.19 deg , respectively. The improved sturdiness demonstrated by the compact-sized stabilizer and the high accuracy of the tracking mechanism make the integrated holder mechanism well suited for use in image-guided robot-assisted brachytherapy...