Automatic Intraoperative Correction of Brain Shift for Accurate Neuronavigation

Unreliable neuronavigation owing to inaccurate patient-to-image registration and brain shift is a major problem in conventional magnetic resonance imaging –guided neurosurgery. We performed a prospective intraoperative validation of a system for fully automatic correction of this inaccuracy based on intraoperative three-dimensional ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging-to-ultrasound registration.
Source: World Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research