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Postimaging brain distortion: magnitude, correlates, and impact on neuronavigation

Neil Dorward, Olaf Alberti, Binti Velani, Frans Gerritsen, William Harkness, Neil Kitchen, D. G. T. Thomas

Journal of neurosurgery · 1998 · 298 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

This study quantified intraoperative brain distortion, determined the different behavior of tumors in four pathological groups, and identified preoperative predictors of shift with which the reliability of neuronavigation may be estimated.

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