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Optimizing brain tumor resection. Low-field interventional MR imaging
1Departments of Neurological Surgery, Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Neuroimaging Clinics of North America
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
In this article, the authors describe their strategy for intraoperative MR image guidance of tumor resection at low-field (0.2 T) strength. It is their opinion that intraoperative imaging is most useful in assessing the resection of intrinsic, infiltrating brain tumors; boundaries of the tumor cannot be clearly distinguished with the surgeon's eyes, and therefore, this discussion predominantly applies to the surgical resection of gliomas.