Paper Info
Title
A VIRTUAL BRAIN FOR STEREOTACTIC PLANNING AND SUPPORTING NEUROSURGERY
Abstract
Visualization has becoming a powerful assistive technology for neurosurgery. This paper introduces a system for stereotactic neurosurgical planning and support. Using visualization technology the system reconstructs and displays a 3D model of the interior structure of the patient's brain. Thus the surgeons can plan for surgery using a computer model. Marker registration is used to create the mapping between the patient's head and the brain model reconstructed in the computer. During the operation a robot arm is used as a navigator to locate the pre-defined incision site and the orientation of incision route. When the robot arm locates at the pre-defined site on the patient's head, it is fixed. Various medical instruments can be installed on the tip of the robot arm. The surgeon can insert a medical instrument into the pre-defined site of the patient's head, and the surgery can be implemented successfully with the help of this system. Using a virtual environment his system can also be used to teach and train new surgeons.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.20870/IJVR.2000.4.4.2657
Int. J. Virtual Real.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
robot arm,computer model,virtual environment
Journal
4
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zigang Wang1405.02
Zesheng Tang214928.27
Tianmiao Wang332268.45
Mengdong Chen410.71
Da Liu5135.17
Zengmin Tian6354.22