title: Neurosurgical navigation using a noninvasive stereoadapter.
abstract: A neurosurgical navigation system incorporating a multiarticulated arm and an isocentric stereotaxic mechanism has been developed. The usefulness of the navigation system has been increased by using it in combination with Laitinen's noninvasive, accurately reproducible stereoadapter. Stereotaxic microsurgery and surgical navigation was performed successfully in 30 cases with these systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Fukuyama Brain Research Institute, Hiroshima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takizawa
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed