Architecture and functional design of advanced neurosurgical operating environments. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Although modern operative neurosurgery is a complex technical undertaking requiring an amalgam of technologies and instrumentations, few reported efforts have dealt with the definition and development of suitable and optimal dedicated operating environments. This report presents the first detailed description of a dedicated, self-contained neurosurgical operating suite incorporating major surgical instrumentation and visualization technologies to provide an "idealized" environment for stereotactic, microscopic, and microstereotactic procedures. Advanced computer technology for visualization to augment, simulate, document, and facilitate all aspects of neurosurgery is described. The architectural and functional design of the operating suite is itself an integral surgical instrument as well as a laboratory for development of new dimensions of neurosurgery.

publication date

  • October 1, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Neurosurgery
  • Operating Rooms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027522142

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1227/00006123-199310000-00016

PubMed ID

  • 8232807

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 33

issue

  • 4