TY - GEN
T1 - Visualization and planning of neurosurgical interventions with straight access
AU - Navkar, Nikhil V.
AU - Tsekos, Nikolaos V.
AU - Stafford, Jason R.
AU - Weinberg, Jeffrey S.
AU - Deng, Zhigang
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Image-guided neurosurgical interventional procedures utilize medical imaging techniques to identify the most appropriate path for accessing a targeted structure. Often, preoperative planning entails the use of multi-contrast or multi-modal imaging for assessing different aspects of patient's pathophysiology related to the procedure. Comprehensive visualization and manipulation of such large volume of three-dimensional anatomical information is a major challenge. In this work we propose a technique for simple and efficient visualization of the region of intervention for neurosurgical procedures. It is done through the generation of access maps on the surface of the patient's skin, which assists a neurosurgeon in selecting the most appropriate path of access by avoiding vital structures and minimizing potential trauma to healthy tissue. Our preliminary evaluation showed that this technique is effective as well as easy to use for planning neurosurgical interventions such as biopsies, deep brain stimulation, ablation of brain lesions.
AB - Image-guided neurosurgical interventional procedures utilize medical imaging techniques to identify the most appropriate path for accessing a targeted structure. Often, preoperative planning entails the use of multi-contrast or multi-modal imaging for assessing different aspects of patient's pathophysiology related to the procedure. Comprehensive visualization and manipulation of such large volume of three-dimensional anatomical information is a major challenge. In this work we propose a technique for simple and efficient visualization of the region of intervention for neurosurgical procedures. It is done through the generation of access maps on the surface of the patient's skin, which assists a neurosurgeon in selecting the most appropriate path of access by avoiding vital structures and minimizing potential trauma to healthy tissue. Our preliminary evaluation showed that this technique is effective as well as easy to use for planning neurosurgical interventions such as biopsies, deep brain stimulation, ablation of brain lesions.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13711-2_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13711-2_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79956271524
SN - 3642137105
SN - 9783642137105
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 11
BT - Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions - First International Conference, IPCAI 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, IPCAI 2010
Y2 - 23 June 2010 through 23 June 2010
ER -