Integration of multimodality imaging and surgical navigation in the management of patients with refractory epilepsy. A pilot study using a new minimally invasive reference and head-fixation system

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 365-378

  Ortler, M ^a   Trinka, E ^a   Dobesberger, J ^a   Bauer, R ^a   Unterhofer, C ^a   Twerdy, K ^a   Walser, G ^a   Unterberger, I ^a   Donnemiller, E ^a   Gotwald, T ^a   Widmann, G ^a   Bale, R ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Co registration; Computer aided surgery; Frameless stereotaxy; Image guided surgery; Neuronavigation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; IODIXANOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THERAPY EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURONAVIGATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949263582     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0386-2     Document Type: Article

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