Recent advances in surgical planning navigation for tumor biopsy and resection.
This paper highlights recent advancements in imaging technologies for surgical planning and navigation in tumor biopsy and resection which need high precision in detection and characterization of lesion margin in preoperative planning and intraoperative navigation. Multimodality image guided surgery platforms brought great benefits in surgical planning and operation accuracy via registration of various data sets with information on morphology [X ray, magnetic resonance (MR) computed tomography (CT) function connectivity [functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) rest status fMRI] or molecular activity [positron emission tomography (PET) These image guided platforms provide a correspondence between the pre operative surgical planning and intra operative procedure. We envisage that the combination of advanced multimodal imaging, three dimensional (3D) printing, and cloud computing will play increasingly important roles in planning and navigation of surgery for tumor biopsy and resection in the coming years.
Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery