Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) in Neurosurgery From Standard B-mod
This book is intended as a practical manual on the use of intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) as a tool for imaging guidance during cranial and spinal neurosurgical procedures. Full account is taken of the emergence of novel clinical applications and recent
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Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) in Neurosurgery
Francesco Prada • Luigi Solbiati Alberto Martegani • Francesco DiMeco Editors
Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) in Neurosurgery From Standard B-mode to Elastosonography
Editors Francesco Prada Istituto Neurologico C. Besta Fondazione IRCCS Milano Italy
Alberto Martegani UO Radiologia Ospedale Valduce Como Italy
Luigi Solbiati UO Radiologia Oncologica Humanitas Univ. and Research Hospital Busto Arsizio Italy
Francesco DiMeco Istituto Neurologico C. Besta Fondazione IRCCS Milano Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-25266-7 ISBN 978-3-319-25268-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25268-1
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Preface
Seeing is believing: intraoperative imaging has always been of great help in finding and defining different brain and spinal lesions, and neurosurgeons have always had a great interest in its development. Many tools are available: neuronavigation has been for years a standard tool in almost every neurosurgical unit, but it has the limitations of being based on preoperative imaging which cannot be updated. Intraoperative computed tomography (iCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) have become a standard intraoperative tool, despite not being true real-time tools that can provide direct guidance, and being costly and time consuming; however, image interpretation is straightforward. This is probably related to the fact that CT and MRI are the main diagnostic tool for CNS pathologies and all neurosurgeons are accustomed to it. This is not the case of ultrasounds (US), which are scarcely used for adult cerebral and spinal diagnostics, except for some vascular diseases, and therefore represent a sort of “gray ar
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