Accuracy of Frame-Based Stereotactic Magnetic Resonance Imaging vs Frame-Based Stereotactic Head Computed Tomography Fused With Recent Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Postimplantation Deep Brain Stimulator Lead Localization

• Published in: Neurosurgery Vol. 69; no. 6; pp. 1299 - 1306
• Main Authors: Pezeshkian, Patrick, DeSalles, Antonio A. F., Gorgulho, Alessandra, Behnke, Eric, McArthur, David, Bari, Ausaf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Oxford University Press 01.12.2011; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Diseases - pathology; Brain Diseases - therapy; Brain Mapping; Deep brain stimulation; Deep Brain Stimulation - methods; Electrodes, Implanted; Female; Humans; Localization; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Neurosurgery; Postoperative Period; Retrospective Studies; Stereotaxic Techniques; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Tomography; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Young Adult; Accuracy; Postimplantation intraoperative computed tomography; Postimplantation intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging; Stereotactic surgery; Deep brain stimulation; Frame; Nervous system diseases; Head; Intraoperative; Stimulator; Stereotaxia; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Encephalon; Surgery; Computerized axial tomography

Abstract BACKGROUND Introduction of the portable intraoperative CT scanner provides for a precise and cost-effective way of fusing head CT images with high-tesla MRI for the exquisite definition of soft tissue needed for stereotactic targeting. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of stereotactic elec...