title: Real-time determination of skull thickness for a manually-navigated synergistic trepanation tool.
abstract: Trepanation of the skull is a common procedure in neurosurgery with the problems of dural tears and wide cutting gaps. A hand-guided instrument containing a soft-tissue preserving saw whose cutting depth is automatically adapted on the basis of a-priori data (CT, MRI) is envisioned to reduce these problems.
authors.affiliation: Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Pauwelsstr. 20, Germany. akorff@hia.rwth-aachen.de
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Korff
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Follmann
authors.forename: Lukas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: Matias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de la Fuente
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schmieder
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Radermacher
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology*; D012984:Software; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014207:Trephining / Q000295:instrumentation*