Publisher's Synopsis
Interactive Image Guided Neurosurgery is a comprehensive book which studies the impact of computerized image processing and three-dimensional special localizers on the accurate localization of intracranial pathology.
Topics covered in Interactive Image Guided Neurosurgery include:
- Stereotactic frame systems and intraoperative localization devices
- Image registration based on discrete anatomic structures
- Image-based frameless stereotactic radiosurgery
- The role of computers and medical imaging in stereotactic neurosurgery
- The Neuronavigator: A potentiometer-based localization arm system
- Intraoperative computed tomographic localization
- Intraoperative microendoscopy
(Distributed by Thieme for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons)