@INPROCEEDINGS{kishenkov2007bvm,
  author = {Oleg Kishenkov and Thomas Wendler and Joerg Traub and Sibylle
	I. Ziegler and Nassir Navab},
  title = {Method for projecting functional 3D information onto anatomic surfaces:
	Accuracy improvement for navigated 3D beta-probes},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of BVM 2007},
  year = {2007},
  month = {March},
  page = {66--70},
  publisher = {Springer},
  abstract = {Today the main challenge in cancer surgery is increasing the accuracy
	in tumor resections. Malignant cells must be completely removed,
	while harm to the surrounding healthy tissue must be minimized. An
	interesting idea to solve this problem is the use of nuclear-labeled
	cancer tracers and intraoperative navigated nuclear probes for residual
	control after initial tumor resection. The idea is to produce an
	activity encoded surface, which localizes the radioactively marked
	residual malignant cells. The thus created surface map is consequently
	used to direct the surgeon during resection by means of augmented
	reality or by simulating a count-rate at the tip of a surgical instrument
	improving the accuracy. However, there is a certain distance between
	the surface and the tip of the probe during the scan procedure. Moreover,
	the nuclear probe is not always positioned perpendicular to the surface.
	The main contribution of this work is to develop a data post-processing
	procedure that takes into account these factors, aiming to increase
	the accuracy of the nuclear probe navigation system and thus contribute
	to a more accurate tumor resection procedure.}
}


