Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery

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.