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A focused reference on contemporary imaging technologies used in neurosurgery, with specific imaging techniques used in brain biopsies, brain tumor resection, deep brain stimulation, and more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Historical Perspectives on Image-Guided Surgery   Robert Galloway

Section I. Methods 2. Background on Imaging: Structural Imaging   Nathan Himes and Geoffrey S. Young 3. Advanced Functional Imaging: fMRI, PET, MEG   Nina Shevzov-Zebrun, Nicole M. Petrovich Brennan, Kyung K. Peck and Andrei I. Holodny 4. Imaging White Matter Anatomy for Surgical Planning of Brain Tumors   Sonia Pujol 5. Background on stereotaxis   David W. Roberts 6. Role of Computers and Image Processing in Image-Guided Brain Tumor Surgery   Nabgha Farhat, Tina Kapur and Ron Kikinis 7. Intra-operative imaging   Christopher Nimsky and Barbara Carl

Section II. Applications 8.  Image Guided Brain Biopsy   Peter C. Warnke and Ashley Ralston 9. Multi-modal Image-guided Brain Tumor Resection   Xiaolei Chen 10. Image-Guidance and Visualization in Pituitary Surgery   Wenya Linda Bi, Ian Dunn and Edward R. Laws 11. Imaging and Epilepsy: The Key to Surgical Success   Wael Assad and G. Rees Cosgrove 12. Image-Guided Open Cerebrovascular Surgery   Rajiv Khajuria, Bradley A. Gross and Rose Du 13. Functional Neurosurgery: Deep Brain Stimulation and Gene Therapy   R. Mark Richardson 14. Image Guidance for Spine Surgery   Viren Vasudeva, Ziev Moses, Tyler Cole, Yakov Gologorsky and Yi Lu 15. Image-Guided Radiosurgery, and Stereotactic Radiotherapy   Agam Sharda and John Adler 16. MRI-Guided Stereotactic Laser Ablation   Jon T. Willie, Jack K. Tung and Robert Gross

Section III. New Directions 17. Advances in Molecular Imaging for Surgery   Olutayo I. Olubiyi, Fake Frank Lu, David Calligaris, Ferenc Jolesz and Nathalie Agar 18. Drug Delivery to the brain via Focused Ultrasound   Costas D. Arvanitis and Nathan McDannold 19.  Robotics for image guided Neurosurgery   Sanju Lama and Garnette R. Sutherland