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Thinned-skull Cortical Window Technique for In Vivo Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging
Published on: November 19, 2012
Real-time determination of skull thickness for a manually-navigated synergistic trepanation tool
Alexander Korff1, Axel Follmann, Lukas Winter
1Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Pauwelsstr. 20, Germany. akorff@hia.rwth-aachen.de
Abstract:
Trepanation of the skull is a common procedure in neurosurgery with the problems of dural tears and wide cutting gaps. A hand-guided instrument containing a soft-tissue preserving saw whose cutting depth is automatically adapted on the basis of a-priori data (CT, MRI) is envisioned to reduce these problems.

