The Neurosurgical Operating Room of the Future: Has the Future Arrived?

摘要

In the rapidly changing world of neurosurgery, image guidance has gained an increasing role in a wide range of surgical procedures. These techniques include frameless and frame-based stereotactic guidance, intraoperative computed tomography, and, most recently, intraoperative MR imaging. The goals of these methods have included guidance to the site of an abnormality, reduction of the necessary craniotomy size, and avoidance of damage to nearby critical structures.