Model-based Surgical Planning and Simulation of Cranial Base Surgery

Model-based surgical planning and simulation of cranial base surgery.

Plastic skull models of seven individual patients were fabricated by stereolithography from three-dimensional data based on computed tomography bone images. Skull models were utilized for neurosurgical planning and simulation in the seven patients with cranial base lesions that were difficult to remove. Surgical approaches and areas of craniotomy were evaluated using the fabricated skull models...

Virtual surgical planning in endoscopic skull base surgery.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Skull base surgery (SBS) involves operative tasks in close proximity to critical structures in a complex three-dimensional (3D) anatomy. The aim was to investigate the value of virtual planning (VP) based on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for surgical planning in SBS and to compare the effects of virtual planning with 3D contours between the expert and the s...

A Web-based System for Surgical Planning and Simulation

The growing scientiic knowledge and rapid progress in medical imaging techniques has led to an increasing demand for better and more eecient methods of remote access to high-performance computer facilities. This paper introduces a web-based telemedicine project that provides interactive tools for surgical simulation and planning. The presented approach makes use of client-server architecture ba...

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Endoscopic cranial base surgery: ready for prime time?

Paradigm shifts, such as changes in the standard way to diagnose or treat diseases in medicine, create controversy. The process of medical evolution must secure the maintenance of human health. Innovations are useless if not based on principles with practical application. Consequently, medical paradigm shifts are often slow, with initial bricks correctly laid so that additional bricks can be pr...