Book Review: Image-Guided Spine Interventions

Image Guided Surgical Interventions

urgeons have traditionally performed procedures to treat diseases by aining direct access to the internal structures involved, and using direct isual inspection to diagnose and treat the defects. Much effort has gone nto identifying the most appropriate incisions and approaches to enable ull access inside body cavities, specific organs, or musculoskeletal tructures. Imaging has traditionally be...

Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy

Prior to the development of image-guided percutaneous spine biopsy techniques, an open biopsy procedure was required for definitive diagnosis. The advantage of the open biopsy procedure is twofold. First, under direct visualization, multiple and larger tissue samples can be obtained and made available for frozen histopathological analysis. Second, the open biopsy can be performed as part of a s...

Ultrasonic image analysis and image-guided interventions.

The fields of medical image analysis and computer-aided interventions deal with reducing the large volume of digital images (X-ray, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography and ultrasound (US)) to more meaningful clinical information using software algorithms. US is a core imaging modality employed in these areas, both in its own right and used in conj...

Conference on Image - Guided Interventions & Fokus Neuroradiologie 3 rd Conference on Image - Guided Interventions

Cost-Effectiveness of Image-Guided Spine Surgery

OBJECTIVE To determine if image-guided spine surgery is cost effective. METHODS A prospective case series of the first 100 patients undergoing thoracolumbar pedicle screw instrumentation under image-guidance was compared to a retrospective control group of the last 100 patients who underwent screw placement prior to the use of image-guidance. The image-guidance system was NaviVision (Vector V...