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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2010 Aug 11;6(3):435–446. doi: 10.1007/s11548-010-0523-7

Table 4.

Target registration error before and after needle-based tissue tracking (in vivo data)

Test targets Before correction (mm) After correction with needle tracking (mm)
Marker-needle distance <10 mm (2 targets) 29.4 ± 2.0 1.0 ± 0.2
Marker-needle distance <30 mm (8 targets) 27.1 ± 2.2 2.8 ± 1.5
Marker-needle distance <50 mm (All 12 targets) 28.2 ± 2.6 3.4 ± 1.9