Comparison of optical and electromagnetic tracking for navigated lateral skull base surgery

Navigation with optical tracking sometimes makes it difficult to establish a line‐of‐sight in cluttered operating theatres. On the other hand, the accuracy of electromagnetic tracking is influenced by ferromagnetic surgical equipment. We compared electromagnetic with optical tracking under controlled conditions for the lateral skull base.

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