title: Recent advances in surgical planning & navigation for tumor biopsy and resection.
abstract: This paper highlights recent advancements in imaging technologies for surgical planning and navigation in tumor biopsy and resection which need high-precision in detection and characterization of lesion margin in preoperative planning and intraoperative navigation. Multimodality image-guided surgery platforms brought great benefits in surgical planning and operation accuracy via registration of various data sets with information on morphology [X-ray, magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT)], function connectivity [functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), rest-status fMRI], or molecular activity [positron emission tomography (PET)]. These image-guided platforms provide a correspondence between the pre-operative surgical planning and intra-operative procedure. We envisage that the combination of advanced multimodal imaging, three-dimensional (3D) printing, and cloud computing will play increasingly important roles in planning and navigation of surgery for tumor biopsy and resection in the coming years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Defeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Diya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Matthew Lun
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Yì Xiáng J
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Wáng
keywords: Cancer; imaging; imaging technologies; navigation; resection; surgical planning