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Computer-Assisted Versus Manual Planning for Stereotactic Brain Biopsy: A Retrospective Comparative Pilot Study.
Author(s) -
Hani J. Marcus,
Vejay N. Vakharia,
Rachel Sparks,
Roman Rodionov,
Neil Kitchen,
Andrew W. McEvoy,
Anna Miserocchi,
Lewis Thorne,
Sébastien Ourselin,
John S. Duncan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
operative neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.791
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 2332-4252
DOI - 10.1093/ons/opz177
Subject(s) - medicine , neurovascular bundle , stereotactic biopsy , magnetic resonance imaging , biopsy , radiology , trajectory , brain biopsy , retrospective cohort study , nuclear medicine , surgery , physics , astronomy
Stereotactic brain biopsy is among the most common neurosurgical procedures. Planning an optimally safe surgical trajectory requires careful attention to a number of features including the following: (1) traversing the skull perpendicularly; (2) minimizing trajectory length; and (3) avoiding critical neurovascular structures.

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