Download or read book Motion Planning in Medicine: Optimization and Simulation Algorithms for Image-Guided Procedures written by Ron Alterovitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Ron Alterovitz and Ken Goldberg, this monograph combines ideas from robotics, physically-based modeling, and operations research to develop new motion planning and optimization algorithms for image-guided medical procedures.