GPS for the Brain
Neuronavigation Integrates Leica Surgical Microscopes
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Valentin Elefteriu, Project Engineer BRAINLAB AG
valentin.elefteriu@brainlab.com
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- 1. One of the challenges of neurosurgery is orientation at the surgical site. While treating cancers of the brain, surgeons often have to operate through healthy and functional tissue. The challenge is always trying to spare as much healthy tissue as possible, while removing as much of the tumor as possible. Neuronavigation technology facilitates both the planning and intraoperative orientation.
- 2. Neuronavigation is a non-invasive imaging method and is mainly used for neurosurgical applications such as tumor resection or the treatment of aneurysms. As neurosurgeons do most of their work at the microscope, BRAINLAB has integrated the surgical microscope with the navigation, which enhances the microscope’s functionality. Neuronavigation works like a GPS system, enabling exact position tracking in the patient’s anatomy.
- 3. Brainlab´s cranial navigation software shows the exact position of the microscope´s focal point and field of view in the brain structures on the preoperative data in different views. Planned objects, trajectories and labeled points can be displayed in all views and overlaid onto the microscope video.
