Advanced Techniques in Image-Guided Brain and Spine Surgery

Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Part I Principles and Technology

1. Historical Perspective of Image-Guided Neurosurgery

2. Sources of Error in Image Registrations for Cranial Image-Guided Neurosurgery

3. Spinal Registration Accuracy and Error

4. The Optical Digitizer

5. The Mechanical Arm System

6. The Magnetic System

7. The Passive Navigational System

8. Image-Guided Neurosurgery Combining Mechanical Arm and Optical Digitizer

9. Videotactic Surgery

10. Endoscopic Image-Guided Surgery

11. Robotic Microscopes

12. Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery

Part IIA Cranial Applications

13. Image-Guided Brain Biopsy

14. Cerebrovascular Applications of Image-Guided Surgery

15. Image-Guided Brain Tumor Resection

16. Interoperative Image Update by Interface with Ultrasound

17. Interoperative Image Update by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

18. Image-Guided Epilepsy Surgery

19. New Directions in Atlas-Assisted Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery

Part IIB Spinal Applications

20. Image-Guided Cervical Instrumentation

21. Thoracic Instrumentation: Stereotactic Navigation for Placement of Pedicle Screws in the Thoracic Spine

22. Image Guidance for Scoliosis

23. Image-Guided Lumbar Instrumentation

24. Computer-Assisted Image-Guided Fluoroscopy (Virtual Fluoroscopy)

25. Controversies in Image-Guided Spine Surgery