Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective therapy as an alternative to pharmaceutical
treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD). Aside from factors such as instrumentation …

Surgical planning of percutaneous interventions has a crucial role to guarantee the success
of minimally invasive surgeries. In the last decades, many methods have been proposed to …

Objective: A craniotomy is the removal of a part of the skull to allow surgeons to have access
to the brain and treat tumors. When accessing the brain, a tissue deformation occurs and …

An error‐controlled mesh refinement procedure for needle insertion simulations is
presented. As an example, the procedure is applied for simulations of electrode implantation …

Many tasks in robot-assisted surgery require planning and controlling manipulators' motions
that interact with highly deformable objects. This study proposes a realistic, time-bounded …

In image-guided percutaneous interventions, a precise planning of the needle path is a key
factor to a successful intervention. In this paper we propose a novel method for computing a …

Background Microelectrode recording (MER) and intraoperative magnetic resonance
imaging (iMRI) have been used in deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson disease …

This review systematically examines the recent research from the past decade on diverse
path-planning algorithms tailored for stereotactic neurosurgery applications. Our …

Intra-operative brain shift is a well-known phenomenon that describes non-rigid deformation
of brain tissues due to gravity and loss of cerebrospinal fluid among other phenomena. This …

The efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) depends on electrode placement accuracy,
which can be jeopardized by brain shift due to burr hole and dura opening during surgery …