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Date posted: 14/07/2009 A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized tumor from the brain of an Indiana woman. The surgery was performed at University Hospital by an eight-member team from the Brain Tumor Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute. "This marks the culmination of one of the most important developments in brain tumor surgery in the last 100 years," says John Tew, MD, a neurosurgeon with the Mayfield Clinic, UC professor of neurosurgery and clinical director of the UC Neuroscience Institute. The multiple brain scans were fused and installed into a surgical guidance computer, whose function is similar to a global positioning system. By revealing the tumor's relationship to all of the functional centers, electrical pathways and arteries and veins in the patient's brain, the technology enabled Tew and his team to map out a safe pathway to the tumor. The processing and fusion of images was performed by James Leach, MD, associate professor of neuroradiology at UC, and a neuroradiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the UC Neuroscience Institute, using the BrainLAB iPlan system at University Hospital. "This fusion of images is exciting in that it allows us to maximize resection (removal) of the tumor while preserving function for the patient," Leach says. See the full Story via external site: www.physorg.com Most recent stories in this category (Display Technology): 08/02/2017: New method improves accuracy of imaging systems |
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