Laurence Mercier, Rolando F Del Maestro, Kevin Petrecca, Anna Kochanowska, Simon Drouin, Charles X B Yan, Andrew L Janke, Sean Jy-Shyang Chen, D Louis Collins
PURPOSE: The aim of this report is to present IBIS (Interactive Brain Imaging System) NeuroNav, a new prototype neuronavigation system that has been developed in our research laboratory over the past decade that uses tracked intraoperative ultrasound to address surgical navigation issues related to brain shift. The unique feature of the system is its ability, when needed, to improve the initial patient-to-preoperative image alignment based on the intraoperative ultrasound data. Parts of IBIS Neuronav source code are now publicly available on-line...
July 2011: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery