An accurate magnetic field solution for medical electromagnetic tracking coils at close range
Tobias Schroeder · Journal of Applied Physics · 2015
Electromagnetic tracking uses transmitter field models to determine position and orientation of an object. An important application of this technology is surgical navigation, where instruments are frequently tracked at short distances from the transmitter. At short distances, conventional and widely used dipole field models can lead to errors in tracked position and orientation. To increase tracking accuracy in this scenario, this work describes a novel transmitter field model and compares its performance against the dipole model. Demonstrated tracking accuracy improvements could have far-reaching benefits for medical navigation applications.