Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Image-Guided Neurosurgery; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction and Historical Perspectives on Image-Guided Surgery; Stereotactic Frames; Advent of Volumetric Tomography; Image Guidance; Optical Localization; Registration; Beyond Points; Intraoperative Imaging; Deformation Correction; Work Underway; Dedication; References; I. Methods; 2 Background on Imaging Structural Imaging; Introduction; Basic Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Longitudinal relaxation; Transverse dephasing; Magnetic susceptibility effects (T2* decay); Proton density.
  • MR pulse sequenceMRI equipment; MRI sequences in clinical use; Diffusion-weighted imaging; T2* dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion imaging; T1 dynamic contrast enhanced permeability imaging; Proton MR spectroscopy; Brain metabolite resonances; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in differential diagnosis; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in preoperative glioma grading and operative guidance; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in assessment of treatment response; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy summary; CT/Dynamic CTA/CT Perfusion; Safety of CT and MRI; Contrast agent risks; Conclusion.
  • Motor and sensory paradigmsLanguage paradigms; Patient preparation for paradigm performance; Data analysis, correction, and interpretation; Artifacts and limitations; Cortical plasticity/reorganization; Applications and current and future research; Magnetoencephalography; Overview and physiological basis; Clinical importance and applications; Patient preparation and procedure; Applications and current and future research; Conclusion; References; 4 Imaging White Matter Anatomy for Brain Tumor Surgery; Introduction; Theoretical Foundations of Diffusion MRI.
  • Diffusion MRI in Practice: Image Acquisition ArtifactsDiffusion Tensor Imaging; High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging; Diffusion MRI Tractography; Tractography reconstructions of motor, language, and vision pathways; Motor pathways; Language pathways; Visual pathways; The role of tractography in the surgical treatment of brain tumors; Tractography as a tool to enhance brain mapping; Tractography as a tool to enhance neuronavigation; Current limitations of tractography; A complex image acquisition and postprocessing pipeline; A macroscopic picture of microscopic structures.