@inproceedings{black_auditory_2013,
title = {Auditory Support for Navigated Radiofrequency Ablation},
author = {D Black and J Al Issawi and C Rieder and C Hansen and H Hahn},
url = {https://www.var.ovgu.de/pub/curac2013_dblack_Auditory_support_for_Navigated_Radiofrequency_Ablation.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
urldate = {2013-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC)},
pages = {30–33},
publisher = {Univ. Prof. Dr. Mag. Wolfgang Freysinger},
address = {Innsbruck , Österreich},
abstract = {Radiofrequency ablation is applied to treat a lesion using a needle inserted into the patient, which delivers local radiof-
requency energy. Guided surgical methods allow surgeons to view the placement of the needle in relation to the patient
to aid in guiding the tip of the needle to the target point. Unfortunately, such methods require that surgeons remove at-
tention from the patient in order to receive guidance information from a screen. We introduce a novel method to align
and insert an ablation needle using auditory display, allowing the surgeon to retain attention on the patient. First eval-
uation results show that novice users can successfully guide a needle towards a target point using primarily auditory
display. We hypothesize that successful auditory display will lead to increased attention on the patient and reduce un-
necessary operator head and neck movements.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
