the future of medicine

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Image Guided Surgery

• the future of medicine

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Medical Advances
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Image Guided Surgery
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Outline
What is Image Guided Surgery (IGS)?

• History
• Components and Procedure
• Advantages
• Neurosurgery

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Methods

• Books
• Internet
• Medical Journals

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History
X-ray discovered in 1913
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MRI and CT Scans
perfected in the mid to late 1990s
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Problems with traditional surgeries

• two dimensional vs. three dimensional
• large incisions
• unnecessary incisions

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Components and Procedure
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Global Position Systems (GPS)
Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
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Images that are seen during the surgery
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Advantages of IGS

• more precision
• shorter surgery time
• smaller incisions
• safer
• more people can receive surgeries
• faster recovery

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Neurosurgery
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Stereotactic Biopsy
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Craniotomy
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Summary

• What medical advances led to IGS
• What technologies make up IGS
• Why IGS is better than traditional surgery
  methods
• Surgeries that can use IGS systems

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Future