Imaging in Neurosurgery: State of the Art
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 3554
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuroradiology; MRI; focused ultrasound; tremor; spine imaging
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Interests: neuroradiology; neurodegenerative and movement disorders; focused ultrasound (FUS); essential tremor; Parkinson’s disease
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neuroimaging plays a fundamental and essential role in the neurosurgical treatment of most brain and spine pathologies. The preoperative study of brain tumors is certainly a milestone in the application of presurgical neuroimaging; structural and functional imaging using advanced MRI sequences (such as perfusion imaging, functional MRI (fMRI), and diffusion MRI (dMRI) sequences) provide fundamental information for the selection of surgical candidates, the tailoring of individualized surgical planning based on structural and functional organization of the brain, and the prediction of postoperative functional outcome. Emerging radiomics techniques will also be implemented in the near future to increase the diagnostic and prognostic validity of neuroimaging data.
Accurate anatomical targeting through neuroimaging techniques is also crucial for optimal clinical outcomes in functional neurosurgical ablation and stimulation procedures such as DBS.
Imaging guidance indeed represents the basis of numerous growing minimally invasive neurosurgical treatments, such as the MRgFUS, used predominantly for the treatment of tremor and chronic pain, but with interesting perspectives in the treatment of epilepsy, psychiatric disorders, drug delivery and brain tumors.
Neuroimaging also plays a central and ever-expanding role in image-guided neurosurgery, thanks to the technological development of scanners and the advent of fusion imaging (MR-CT, MR-US), with a broad range of applications in brain and spine surgery.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest advances in the cross-disciplinary field of neuroimaging in neurosurgery, to build a focused update from different points of view. We welcome contributions from all specialists involved in the diagnosis and treatment of neurosurgical diseases, from basic neurological sciences (neuroanatomy, neurobiology) to medical clinical specialties (neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, neurophysiology).
Dr. Federico Bruno
Dr. Ayesha Jameel
Dr. Yanmei Tie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neurosurgery
- neuroimaging
- MRI
- radiomics
- brain tumors
- functional neurosurgery
- surgical planning
- functional brain mapping
- image-guided neurosurgery
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