Image guided laryngoscopy versus laryngectomy surgery: Patient safety and system review

Image guided laryngoscopy versus laryngectomy surgery: Patient safety and system review

Laryngectomy, open surgery on the neck, is an invasive therapeutic procedure with serious potential of constraints in everyday life, such as the loss of voice. The use of minimal invasive transoral and transnasal approaches for local treatment of laryngeal cancer could ensure better preserving of organs. Direct laryngoscopy, a widely used endoscopic procedure that requires general anesthesia is...

Safety of Interactive Image-Guided Surgery

Toward image guided robotic surgery: system validation.

PURPOSE Navigation for current robotic assisted surgical techniques is primarily accomplished through a stereo pair of laparoscopic camera images. These images provide standard optical visualization of the surface but provide no subsurface information. Image guidance methods allow the visualization of subsurface information to determine the current position in relationship to that of tracked to...

Image-guided surgery and therapy

I am pleased to see the publication of this very novel issue. It brings together in one volume the role modern imaging has to play in surgery and radiotherapy. Certainly in functional neurosurgery imaging has transformed the way it is performed. In its first blossoming in the 1950s, patients were fixed in a stereotactic frame, contrast was injected into the ventricles and x-rays were taken of t...

Image-guided surgery.

Recent advances in image guided surgery are changing the manner in which surgeons are able to execute difficult procedures. By building detailed, patient-specific models of anatomy, and augmenting those models with other information, such as functional properties, the surgeon can better plan her procedure to optimally extract target tissue while avoiding nearby critical structures. By registeri...