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The Use of Fusion Images as a Diagnostic and Neurosurgical Planning Tool in Microvascular Decompression

Preoperative assessment of surgery using high-quality images can help surgeons to achieve best result of treatment. With the advances in computer technology, interactive multimodality fusion images have been developed. The use of fusion images as a preoperative planning tool is described with its ex...

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Autores principales: Tommy, Thomas, Sakarunchai, Ittichai, Yamada, Yasuhiro, Yoshida, Koichiro, Kawase, Tsukasa, Kato, Yoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660369
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_413_20
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Sumario:Preoperative assessment of surgery using high-quality images can help surgeons to achieve best result of treatment. With the advances in computer technology, interactive multimodality fusion images have been developed. The use of fusion images as a preoperative planning tool is described with its examples in illustrative cases of trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm microvascular decompression (MVD). Interactive computer graphics such as multimodality fusion method is a useful tool to preoperatively predict the need of bone exposure and configuration of blood vessels with its correlation to cranial nerves in MVD.