Intraoperative real-time querying of white matter tracts during frameless stereotactic neuronavigation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 506-516

  Elhawary, Haytham ^a   Liu, Haiying ^a   Patel, Pratik ^b   Norton, Isaiah ^a   Rigolo, Laura ^a   Papademetris, Xenophon ^c   Hata, Nobuhiko ^a   Golby, Alexandra J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRAINLAB AG   (Germany)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Intraoperative tractography; Neuronavigation; Real time tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GEOMETRY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURONAVIGATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79951678233     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182036282     Document Type: Article

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