Publications
CT-Guided Robotic Prostate Biopsy.
18th World Congress on Endourology & SWL.
(2000). Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery: Information-driven Systems for 21st Century Operating Rooms.
Journal of Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery. 2 No 2, 47-53.
(2000). Robotically Assisted Percutaneous Local Therapy and Biopsy.
Workshop proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference of Advance Robotics. 133-151.
(2001). The surgical CAD/CAM paradigm and an implementation for robotically-assisted percutaneous local therapy.
Procedings AIPR 2001 30th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop. 3–8.
Fichtinger2001.pdf (910.42 KB)
(2001). 
System for robotically assisted percutaneous procedures with computed tomography guidance.
Journal of Computer Aided Surgery. 6, 370–383.
Masamune2001.pdf (2.09 MB)
(2001). 
An Image Overlay System with Enhanced Reality for Percutaneous Therapy Performed Inside CT Scanner.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). 2489, 77-84.
Masamune2002.pdf (200.13 KB)
(2002). 
Robotically Assisted Prostate Biopsy And Therapy With Intra-Operative CT Guidance.
Journal of Academic Radiology. 9 no 1, 60-74.
Fichtinger2002.pdf (5.78 MB)
(2002). 
An Enhanced Reality System for Percutaneous needle placement Therapy inside X-ray CT Scanner.
ARCS - Workshop on Augmented Reality in Computer Aided Surgery. 83.
Masamune2003.pdf (39.25 KB)
(2003). 
Rapid calibration method for registration and 3D tracking of ultrasound images using spatial localizer.
Medical Imaging 2003: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 5035, 521-532.
Boctor2003.pdf (288.98 KB)
(2003). 
Robotically assisted intraoperative ultrasound with application to ablative therapy of liver cancer.
(Galloway, Jr., R. L., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2003: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. 5029, 281-291.
Boctor2003c.pdf (341.78 KB)
(2003). 
Tracked 3D ultrasound in radio-frequency liver ablation.
(Walker, W. F., & Insana M. F., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2003: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 5035, 174-182.
Boctor2003a.pdf (236.57 KB)
(2003). 
3D motion tracking of pulmonary lesions using CT fluoroscopy images for robotically assisted lung biopsy.
(Galloway, Jr., R. L., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2004: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. 5367, 394-402.
Xu2004.pdf (941.3 KB)
(2004). 
CISUS: an integrated 3D ultrasound system for IGT using a modular tracking API.
(Galloway, Jr., R. L., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2004: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. 5367, 247-256.
Boctor2004a.pdf (536.92 KB)
(2004). 
Design of an image-guided robot system for measurement, biopsy and injection in rodents.
Procedings IEEE 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference. 39–40.
Li2004.pdf (173.59 KB)
(2004). 
Development of a Robotically-Assisted 3-D Ultrasound System for Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors.
6th World Congress of the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA).
(2004). A dual-armed robotic system for intraoperative ultrasound guided hepatic ablative therapy: a prospective study.
Procedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA ’04. 3, 2517–2522.
Boctor2004c.pdf (629.71 KB)
(2004). 
Immediate Ultrasound Calibration from Three Poses and Minimal Image Processing.
Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). 3217, 446-454.
Viswanathan2004.pdf (526.25 KB)
(2004). 
Needle Insertion in CT Scanner with Image Overlay - Cadaver Studies.
Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). 3217, 795-803.
Fichtinger2004.pdf (1.58 MB)
(2004). 
A novel closed form solution for ultrasound calibration.
Procedings IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Nano to Macro. 527–530.
Boctor2004.pdf (189.73 KB)
(2004). 
Robotic Strain Imaging for Monitoring Thermal Ablation of Liver Tumors.
Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3217, 81-88.
Boctor2004b.pdf (1.19 MB)
(2004). 
Robotically assisted ablative treatment guided by freehand 3D ultrasound.
Conference of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS). 503-508.
Boctor2004e.pdf (669.44 KB)
(2004). 
CIS-UltraCal: an open-source ultrasound calibration toolkit.
Medical Imaging 2005: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 5750, 516-523.
Kon2005.pdf (200.67 KB)
(2005). 
Image Overlay for CT-Guided Hepatic Needle Insertions - Cadaver Studies.
Annual congress of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. pp 243-244.
DeOliveira2005.pdf (365.48 KB)
(2005). 
Image overlay for CT-guided needle insertions.
Journal of Computer Aided Surgery. 10, 241–255.
Fichtinger_JCAS2005.pdf (447.92 KB)
(2005). 
Image overlay guidance for needle insertion in CT scanner.
IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering. 52, 1415–1424.
Fichtinger2005a.pdf (731.23 KB)
(2005). 