CT of the head is also used in CT-guided stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery for treatment of intracranial tumors, arteriovenous malformations and other surgically treatable conditions using a device known as the N-localizer.
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These shunts are inserted in one of the lateral ventricles of the brain, usually by stereotactic surgery, and then connected either to the right atrium of the heart or the peritoneal cavity, respectively.
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Surgical possibilities include computer-guided stereotactic surgery in the brain to relieve tremor, a burning out of hyperactive neurons in an area of the brain called the pallidum ( pallidotomy ) and transplants of fetal brain tissue.
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He assembled an interdisciplinary team at the medical center to treat such diseases, as well as intractable pain, with stereotactic surgery, which focuses on specific groups of cells in deep-seated brain structures that control specific functions.
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Example : " Neuroradiology methods are used in modern neurosurgical diagnosis and treatment, including computer assisted imaging computed tomography ( CT ), magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ), positron emission tomography ( PET ), magnetoencephalography ( MEG ), and the stereotactic surgery.
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It stimulated renewed interest in, and further development of, stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery and has achieved widespread clinical use in the Brown-Roberts-Wells ( BRW ), Leksell, Kelly-Goerss and Cosman-Roberts-Wells ( CRW ) stereotactic instruments and in the Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery system.
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Image-guided surgery was originally developed for treatment of brain tumors using stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery that are guided by computed tomography ( CT ), magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) and positron emission tomography ( PET ) using a technology known as the N-localizer.
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N-bar ) is a device that enables guidance of stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using tomographic images that are obtained via medical imaging technologies such as X-ray computed tomography ( CT ), magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) or positron emission tomography ( PET ).
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While a medical student and in the research laboratory of his mentor, James A . Nelson, he invented a device that guides stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using computed tomography ( CT ), magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) or positron emission tomography ( PET ).
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In those days there were very few neurosurgeons around the world who were active in stereotactic surgery and the international network was very small; it is of interest that the Schalten brand and Bailey s Stereotactic Atlas was partly based on some brain specimens supplied by Leksell.
