Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery, 1997

Computer technology has developed remarkably in the field of neurosurgery during the past 10 to 20 years. Great achievements have been made recently in neuroimaging techniques and computer technology for neuronavigation, from frameless, armless systems to robotic microscopes. Contained in the present volume are all the papers presented at the International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery and selected papers presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Computers in Neurosurgery, which were held in Kobe, Japan, on January 24-26, 1997. This volume is a comprehensive description and review of current technical ad­ vancements in computer-assisted neurosurgery, with a special focus on advanced intraoperative neuroimaging, various neuronavigation system, robotic microscopes, and strategies for preoperative and intraoperative surgical planning using high-power workstations with three-dimensional software. We express our thanks to the contributors for their participation and cooperation, and to Springer-Verlag for personal and technical assistance in publishing this work. We sincerely hope that this volume will contribute to improving neurosurgical technology and outcomes.

1. Technical Advances in Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery — Frameless, Armless Systems to Robotic Microscopes.- Neuronavigator: Its Current Usage and Its Future.- Computer-Assisted and Frameless Stereotaxy in Australia: The Operating Arm System.- of the Passive Marker Neuronavigation System VectorVision.- EasyGuide Neuro: A New Approach to Image-Guided Surgery.- Advanced Neurosurgical Navigation Using a Robotic Microscope Integrated with an Infrared-Based System.- 2. Various Applications of Computer-Assisted Systems.- Application of the ISG Viewing Wand for Endoscopic Procedures.- Computer-Assisted Endomicroscopic Surgery.- Precisely Targeted Tumor Biopsy and Marking under CT-Fluoroscopy.- Interactive Image-Guided Surgery Using an Infrared-Based System.- 3. Advanced Neurosurgical Planning Using Computer-Assisted Systems.- Computer-Aided Surgery.- Surgical Simulation in an Anatomical/Functional Atlas with HyperCAS.- Preoperative Simulation and Intraoperative Navigation with Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics.- 4. Intraoperative Imaging and Brain Shift.- Three-Dimensional Image-Guided Navigation with Overlaid Three-Dimensional Image (Volumegraph) and Volumetric Ultrasonogram (V-US).- Consideration of Intraoperative Brain Shift for Frameless Stereotaxy.- Clinical Application of CT-Fluoroscopy.- Image-Guided Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.- 5. Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery of Difficult Lesions.- Surgical Management for Gliomas Around the Motor Strip: Preoperative Anatomical and Functional Imaging.- CANS Navigator for Skull Base Surgery: Usefulness of Successive Localizations and Surgical Track.- Navigational Surgery of the Skull Base and Other Vital Area Lesions using the Mehrkoordinaten Manipulator (MKM) System.- Application of the ISG Viewing Wand in Skull Base Procedures.