Bookedited by Jorge Alvaro González Martínez, Francesco Cardinale.
Summary: This book provides a state-of-the art review of this field and demonstrates the basic applications of robotic surgery in the field of neurosurgery, exposing its basic principles, practical technical nuances, and advantages and limitations related to the technology. It also provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts. All chapters are written by experts in their fields and include the most up to date scientific and clinical information. Robotics in Neurosurgery: Principles and Practice will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons, engineers and researchers dealing with, and interested in, this challenging and promising field in robotics applied to neurosurgery.
Contents:
Part I General Principles
1. Robotics in Neurosurgery: Overture
2. Historical Perspectives
3. General principles of robotics
4. Image Guidance for Intracranial Surgery with Supervisory-Control Robots
Part II Robot Assisted Neurosurgery: Clinical Applications
5. Robotics in Functional Neurosurgery
6. Robotics in Epilepsy Surgery
7. Robotic SEEG-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation
8. Robotics in Laser Ablation Procedures
9. Nuances of Robotics Applied in Children
10. Robotic Assisted Endoscopy
11. Robot-assisted stereotactic biopsy
12. Robot-assisted drug delivery to the brain
13. Robotics in Radiosurgery
14. Robotic Navigated Laser Craniotomy: Current applications and future developments.
15. Small footprint stereotactic robotic devices
16. Robotics in Spine Procedures
Part III Rehabilitation and Assistive Robots
17. Rehabilitation and assistive robotics: shared principles and common applications
18. A brief summary of the article: An exoskeleton controlled by an epidural wireless brain-machine interface in a tetraplegic patient: a proof-of-concept demonstration
Part IV Special Topics
19. Robotics in Neurosurgical Training.