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Surgical Navigation: An Overview of the State-of-the-Art Clinical Applications

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Anatomical and/or functional imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound, often combined with contrast agents, and molecular imaging modalities like single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) have become standard tools to aid in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease or injury. Yet, translating this wealth of detailed preoperative imaging information into better surgical treatment and clinical outcome is an ongoing challenge. Patient scans usually provide a 3D map of the disease, often placed in the context of the patient’s anatomy, that surgeons can use as a reference to guide them during an intervention. It would be very convenient for the surgeon to know exactly where surgical tools are on this map relative to the target location or, even better, to be provided with an optimal path from the tools towards the target.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by a Eurostars grant (Hybrid Navigator; Grant No. E! 7555), an NWO-STW-VIDI grant (Grant No. STW BGT11272), and a European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) grant (Grant No. 2012-20120314).

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  1. Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

    Paulo Waelkens & Matthias N. van Oosterom

  2. Interventional Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

    Paulo Waelkens, Matthias N. van Oosterom, Nynke S. van den Berg & Fijs W. B. van Leeuwen

  3. Departments of Urology and Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital – Netherlands Cancer Institute (AVL-NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Nynke S. van den Berg & Fijs W. B. van Leeuwen

  4. Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP), Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Nassir Navab

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Waelkens, P., van Oosterom, M.N., van den Berg, N.S., Navab, N., van Leeuwen, F.W.B. (2016). Surgical Navigation: An Overview of the State-of-the-Art Clinical Applications. In: Herrmann, K., Nieweg, O., Povoski, S. (eds) Radioguided Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26051-8_4

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