Imagine a physician attempting to reach a cancerous nodule deep within a patient's lung—a target the size of a pea, hidden ...

In modern clinical practices, accurate orientation for needle-like tools inserting into soft tissues is cumbersome, mainly due to the tissue's non-linear deformation and the complicated combination of ...

This study investigates two advanced methods to derive real-time-capable thermal simulation models represented in state space and compares them in terms of their computational effort, result accuracy, ...