Defining excellence in vascular neurosurgery.

Defining excellence in pediatric neurosurgery.

Developing a 3D Reconstruction System for Surgical Planning in Neurovascular Surgery (In press)

Introduction: Neurovascular lesions may cause death or disability. Some of them are operable, but surgical approaches to these lesions are complicated and proper access is crucial. A few numbers of these surgeries occur in every resident education period and their experience for operating these lesions may be quite inadequate. Using new technologies like 3D-restructure of vascular lesion images...

CLINICAL NEUROSURGERY PROCEEDINGS Excellence in Spinal Neurosurgery

The New Oxford English Dictionary defines excellence as ‘‘the possession chiefly of good qualities in an eminent or unusual degree surpassing merit or skill.’’ The definition of medicine is ‘‘the art of restoring and preserving health.’’ Consequently, excellence in medicine is the art of restoring and preserving health with surpassing merit or skill. For patients, the price of mediocrity is hig...

The Benefits and implementations of Diffusion tensor imaging and Neural Fiber Tractography in Brain Surgery

Background and Aim: The methods for detecting brain activation with fMRI, MRI provides a way to measure the anatomical connections which enable lightning-fast communication among neurons that specialize in different kinds of brain functions. Diffusion tensor imaging is able to measure the direction of bundles of the axonal fibers which are all aligned. Besides mapping white matter fiber tracts,...

Pursuing excellence in healthcare delivery: American neurosurgery.

The field of healthcare delivery is a large one, and neurosurgical health services research can be said to have only just begun. This chapter briefly addresses 3 components of excellence in health care delivery-quality, access, and cost-from a neurosurgical perspective.