Image-guided neurosurgery.
The linking of digitizing pointers to computer programs that reformat diagnostic studies has resulted in
the development of image-guided surgery, also called frameless stereotactic surgery. With frameless
stereotaxy, the neurosurgeon transposes the three-dimensional physical space of the patient's skull and
cranial contents in the operating room with the three-dimensional image space of preoperative computerized
tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans shown in the computer.
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University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.