Integrated image- and function-guided surgery in eloquent cortex: a technique report

An integrated range-sensing, segmentatio

An integrated range-sensing, segmentation and registration framework for the characterization of intra-surgical brain deformations in image-guided surgery

✍ Michel A Audette; Kaleem Siddiqi; Frank P Ferrie; Terry M Peters 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 918 KB

Image-guided surgery (IGS) is a technique for localizing anatomical structures on the basis of volumetric image data and for determining the optimal surgical path to reach these structures, by the means of a localization device, or probe, whose position is tracked over time. The usefulness of this t