Computer-assisted neurosurgery: simulation and automation.
Instrumentation has been developed to automate, accurately guide, and integrate microsurgery laser resection equipment that is used in stereotactic brain surgery. The instrument is a computer-controlled laser-guiding system. The improvement in the accuracy comes from relying on a certain well-referenced three-dimensional surgical orientation, and computer-preplanned tumor contours, rather than only the surgeons hand-eye orientation in the operating room.
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Henry Ford Neurosurgical Institute, Detroit, Mich.
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Dong
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D001331:Automation; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed