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Brain Cancer
Dual-imaging technique useful before -- and during -- brain surgery
June 18th, 2007
Brain specialists associated with the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and University Hospital say the ability to incorporate—in real time—two high-tech imaging tools into the operating room can improve the functional abilities of patients who undergo brain surgery. Neuroradiologist James Leach, MD, and his UC colleagues are among the first in the United States to combine functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and “diffusion tensor tractography” data to outline important areas of brain function and their connections prior to surgery—and then transfer that data to the operating room to track those areas during actual surgery. ...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-06-18)
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