Targeting Accuracy and Clinical Outcomes of Awake versus Asleep Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: The University of California, San Francisco Experience

• Published in: Neurosurgery Vol. 91; no. 5; p. 717
• Main Authors: Lee, Anthony T, Han, Kasey J, Nichols, Noah, Sudhakar, Vivek R, Burke, John F, Wozny, Thomas A, Chung, Jason E, Volz, Monica M, Ostrem, Jill L, Martin, Alastair J, Larson, Paul S, Starr, Philip A, Wang, Doris D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2022
• Subjects: Deep Brain Stimulation - methods; Humans; Levodopa - therapeutic use; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Interventional; Parkinson Disease - diagnostic imaging; Parkinson Disease - therapy; San Francisco; Treatment Outcome; Wakefulness; San Francisco

Interventional MRI (iMRI)-guided implantation of deep brain stimulator (DBS) leads has been developed to treat patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) without the need for awake testing. Direct comparisons of targeting accuracy and clinical outcomes for awake stereotactic with asleep iMRI-DBS fo...