Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery

1. Front Matter

   Pages II-VIII

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2. Technical Advances in Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery — Frameless, Armless Systems to Robotic Microscopes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Neuronavigator: Its Current Usage and Its Future

      • Eiju Watanabe

      Pages 3-10

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   3. Computer-Assisted and Frameless Stereotaxy in Australia: The Operating Arm System

      • Malcolm F. Pell

      Pages 11-22

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   4. Introduction of the Passive Marker Neuronavigation System VectorVision

      • Stefan Vilsmeier, Fotios Nisiropoulos

      Pages 23-37

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   5. EasyGuide Neuro: A New Approach to Image-Guided Surgery

      • Manfred Baur

      Pages 38-42

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   6. Advanced Neurosurgical Navigation Using a Robotic Microscope Integrated with an Infrared-Based System

      • Lucia Zamorano, Federico C. Vinas, Razvan Buciuc, Zhaowei Jiang, Fernando G. Diaz

      Pages 43-55

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3. Various Applications of Computer-Assisted Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Application of the ISG Viewing Wand for Endoscopic Procedures

      • Michael W. Mcdermott, Alan Jacobs

      Pages 59-68

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   3. Computer-Assisted Endomicroscopic Surgery

      • Takayuki Ohira, Masato Ochiai, Takeshi Kawase, Masatoshi Wada, Katsushige Nakamura

      Pages 69-75

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   4. Precisely Targeted Tumor Biopsy and Marking under CT-Fluoroscopy

      • Kazuhiko Nonomura, Tetsuo Kanno, Kazuhiro Katada, Masato Abe, Tsukasa Kawase, Isao Okuma et al.

      Pages 76-85

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   5. Interactive Image-Guided Surgery Using an Infrared-Based System

      • Lucia Zamorano, Razvan Buciuc, Federico C. Vinas, Fernando G. Diaz

      Pages 86-98

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4. Advanced Neurosurgical Planning Using Computer-Assisted Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Computer-Aided Surgery

      • Kintomo Takakura, Hiroshi Iseki, Takeyoshi Dohi

      Pages 101-104

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   3. Surgical Simulation in an Anatomical/Functional Atlas with HyperCAS

      • Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Takemasa Kawamoto, Takaomi Taira, Hiroshi Iseki, Kintomo Takakura

      Pages 105-114

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   4. Preoperative Simulation and Intraoperative Navigation with Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics

      • Nakamasa Hayashi, Shunro Endo, Akira Takaku

      Pages 115-120

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5. Intraoperative Imaging and Brain Shift

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Three-Dimensional Image-Guided Navigation with Overlaid Three-Dimensional Image (Volumegraph) and Volumetric Ultrasonogram (V-US)

      • Hiroshi Iseki, Nobuhiko Hata, Yoshitaka Masutani, Makoto Iwahara, Tomoya Ono, Hiroyuki Kataoka et al.

      Pages 123-130

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   3. Consideration of Intraoperative Brain Shift for Frameless Stereotaxy

      • Hiroshi Okudera, Shigeaki Kobayashi, Hisashi Nagashima, Toru Koyama, Susumu Oikawa

      Pages 131-136

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   4. Clinical Application of CT-Fluoroscopy

      • Tetsuo Kanno, Kazuhiko Nonomura, Krupa Shanker, Kazuhiro Katada

      Pages 137-143

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Computer technology has developed remarkably in the field of neurosurgery during the past 10 to 20 years. Great achievements have been made recently in neuroimaging techniques and computer technology for neuronavigation, from frameless, armless systems to robotic microscopes. Contained in the present volume are all the papers presented at the International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery and selected papers presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Computers in Neurosurgery, which were held in Kobe, Japan, on January 24-26, 1997. This volume is a comprehensive description and review of current technical ad­ vancements in computer-assisted neurosurgery, with a special focus on advanced intraoperative neuroimaging, various neuronavigation system, robotic microscopes, and strategies for preoperative and intraoperative surgical planning using high-power workstations with three-dimensional software. We express our thanks to the contributors for their participation and cooperation, and to Springer-Verlag for personal and technical assistance in publishing this work. We sincerely hope that this volume will contribute to improving neurosurgical technology and outcomes.

• Tumor
• brain
• computer
• computer-aided surgery
• computerassistierte Detektion
• glioma
• neuroimaging
• neuronavigation
• neurosurgery
• surgery

• Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650, Japan

  Norihiko Tamaki, Kazumasa Ehara

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