Process and apparatus particularly for guiding neurosurgical operations

Abstract

Abstract The process for guiding neurosurgical operations allows to considerably reduce surgical traumatism during the removal of cerebral lesions by virtue of the possibility of converting into three-dimensional images both the contours of the anatomical structures and the representation of the device for the stereotaxic detection of the affected region together with a stereotaxic probe which defines a surgical path. The apparatus for executing the above mentioned process comprises means (4) for transferring two-dimensional radiological images (5) arriving from a CAT or MR device to a computer (6) which is equipped with a visual display and comprises processing means for converting the two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images (8) together with the schematic three-dimensional representation of the stereotaxic detection device (3).

Inventors

• 👤 Cesare Giorgi

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