Intraoperative Visualization Techniques and Advanced Imaging in Brain Tumors
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2024 | Viewed by 314
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuroncology; glioma; brain mapping; intraoperative ultrasound; intraoperative fluorescence; neuromonitoring; fiber tracking
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Interests: Cancer Stem Cells; Neurosurgery; Cancer Biology
Interests: neurobiology; neurobiology and brain physiology; neurodegeneration; synaptic plasticity; neuroanatomy; neurodegenerative diseases; neural plasticity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is well established today that the extent of resection correlates with increased survival in primary brain tumors and that the goal of surgery is maximal safe resection to allow for the most radical tumor removal while preserving the patient's neurological integrity. To achieve maximal safe resection, both preoperative planning with advanced imaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (both resting state and task-based) or fiber tracking, and new intraoperative visualization technologies, such as the use of fluorophores (associated or not with confocal microscopy), or intraoperative visualization techniques such as intra-op ultrasound, CT or MRI, are essential. For these reasons, we aim for this Special Issue to provide an update on the technologies available in primary brain tumor surgery.
Dr. Andrea Bianconi
Dr. Pietro Fiaschi
Prof. Dr. Diego Garbossa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- glioma
- glioblastoma
- brain metastasis
- diffusion tensor imaging
- fiber tracking
- functional MRI
- intraoperative fluorescence
- intraoperative MRI
- intraoperative ultrasound
