Editorial: Intraoperative MRI

Intraoperative MRI: a moving magnet.

EDITORIAL: Intraoperative Duplex Imaging of Carotid Endarterectomy

Improved outcome following carotid endarterectomy becoming the favoured technique for completion imis dependent upon low surgical morbidity and moraging, because it provides both anatomical and haemotality rates. Guidelines for performing carotid enddynamic information without increasing the risk of arterectomy recommend that surgeons should have a the procedure. documented complication rate of...

Future perspectives for intraoperative MRI.

MRI-guided neurosurgery not only represents a technical challenge but a transformation from conventional hand-eye coordination to interactive navigational operations. In the future, multimodality-based images will be merged into a single model, in which anatomy and pathologic changes are at once distinguished and integrated into the same intuitive framework. The long-term goals of improving sur...

Intraoperative DSC-MRI (iDSC-MRI): feasibility and clinical application

Introduction: Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) enables calculation of regional maps for relative blood volume and flow by administering a bolus of conventional MR contrast agents while T2*-weighted images are being acquired. This technique can thus provide pathophysiologic data and has been used to distinguish high-grade from low-grade tumors as well as to create characteristic map...

Development of intraoperative MRI: a personal journey.

The initial attempts at intraoperative image guidance and imaging dates back to early 1980s. Since then Neuronavigation and intraoperative imaging technologies were developed in parallel. This works aims at summarizing the developments and giving an insider's view into the beginning stage of these technologies. The successes and obstacles encountered in the first few decades are relayed from th...