## 3 The 3D Motion-Planning Algorithm
### The 3D Intraoperative Motion Planner
**Acknowledgments:** The authors would like to thank the medical robotics and intelligent control laboratory, Chonnam National University in Korea, for their support in terms of language correction. **Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest. ## References

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