Table 1.

Recent examples of LRS integration into image-guided procedures.

Year	Author	Procedure	Application
2000	Commer et al.31	orthodontics	tooth position tracking
2003	Audette et al.32	neurosurgery	registration, brain deformation tracking
2003	Cash et al.20	liver surgery	registration of liver surface
2003	Marmulla et al.33	cranio-maxillofacial surgery	face registration
2003	Meehan et al.34	cranio-maxillofacial surgery	facial tissue deformation tracking
2003	Miga et al.35	neurosurgery	cortical surface registration
2005	Cash et al.36	liver surgery	liver deformation tracking
2005	Sinha et al.21	neurosurgery	cortical surface deformation tracking
2006	Sinha et al.22	neurosurgery	cortical surface registration
2008	Cao et al.29	neurosurgery	comparison of registration methods
2009	Ding et al.23	neurosurgery	semiautomatic LRS cloud registration
2009	Shamir et al.14	neurosurgery	face registration
2010	Dumpuri et al.30	liver surgery	liver deformation compensation