Three-dimensional computer simulation of stereotactic surgery

Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1990:54-55:488-92. doi: 10.1159/000100260.

Abstract

Software which can be used to simulate stereotactic surgery on a personal computer was developed. Using the modified Todd-Wells frame coordinates, it can reconstruct a three-dimensional image of the brain structure and simulate the target trajectories before the operation. Also, it can calculate the volume of the target region and the distance between the target and certain points in arbitrary trajectory angles. Its optional mode can be used for simulation of conventional brain surgery for previewing deep-seated brain lesions in the operating position.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain Mapping / instrumentation
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / surgery*
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / complications*
  • Microcomputers*
  • Software*
  • Stereotaxic Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Thalamic Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Thalamic Diseases / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / instrumentation*