title: [Computer-assisted intraoperative navigation at the anterior skull base].
abstract: Intraoperative 3D-navigation at the anterior skull base has become a very valuable tool in the last years. For a successful use the clinical pathways need a slight adaptation only to provide the radiologic imagery to the system. Established algorithms and standardized protocols have proven 3D-navigation systems as a valuable clinical tool, when used in conjunction with appropriate intraoperative quality assurance. Ease-of-use and reliable intraoperative quality assurance is an active area of research that, combined with adequate strategies for referencing the patient to preoperative high-resolution radiologic data, will make 3D-navigation at the lateral skull base a successful clinical tool as well.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck. wolfgang.freysinger@i-med.ac.at
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Freysinger
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D035262:Cranial Fossa, Anterior / Q000601:surgery*; D003479:Curriculum; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation*; D038361:Neuronavigation / Q000193:education / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000193:education; D010038:Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012984:Software; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*