BME Advanced Imaging [399-650A]: Course Notes

Image guided neurosurgery

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Suggested reading:
Class notes
- Slides of class notes (under construction).
Review/reference papers
Computer Aided surgery/Image guided surgery links pages
- MRCAS
  Formed with a goal of fostering application of robotic and computer technologies in medicine, the Center for Medical Robotics and CAS web site is an educational experience in computer aided surgery.
- Computer aided surgery from Yasushi Yamauchi, Japan
Intraoperative image-guided surgery
- European Community research project ROBOSCOPE
Interesting Links
- Computer Aided Surgery
  A descriptive article on how advances in computerized image processing has helped growth of computer aided surgery.
- Computer Aided Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
  A simple illustrated account of how state-of-art technology can be used to operate on the nasal sinuses with minimal injury to the patient. From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Tsuchiura Kyoudou Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan.
- Images and Animations produced by the SPL
  Some of the simulations of surgical procedures made possible by the technology being researched at SPL, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- On foundation of Computer Aided Surgery
  A brief account of the foundation of computer aided surgery, from JSCAS.
- Publications of the Surgical Robotics Lab
  Refereed publications in journals and conference proceedings of the Surgical Robotics Lab, Charité, Campus Virchow, Berlin.
- Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
  The homepage of the TATRC has some informative material on advanced telemedicine technology and forthcoming research topics.
- The Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital
  A high-tech research institution, combining the fields of Computer Science and MRI Radiology towards a goal of real-time 3D imaging of patients during surgery.
- Int'l Soc. of Computer Aided Surgery - ISACS
  The homepage of the international association in charge of computer aided surgery matters.
- Journal of Computer Aided Surgery
  The table of contents and selected abstracts are available from the publisher's site - Wiley (US).
Unclassified stuff

Last modified: January 11, 2000 Comments or suggestions to louis@bic.mni.mcgill.ca