An articulated neurosurgical navigation system using MRI and CT images

Abstract

Neurosurgical operations sometimes involve difficulties in finding out the real positions of small-size neoplasms shown on tomographical images. The articulated navigation system, with the aid of a computer, gives ongoing positional correspondence between the position in the patient's brain and the one in the tomographic images to assist neurosurgery.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>