Localization of Transcranial Targets for Photoacoustic-Guided Endonasal Surgeries

Neurosurgeries to remove pituitary tumors using the endonasal, transsphenoidal approach often incur the risk of patient death caused by injury to the carotid arteries hidden by surrounding sphenoid bone. To avoid this risk, we propose intraoperative photoacoustic vessel visualization with an optical...

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Main Authors: Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Ke Li, Peter Kazanzides, Emad M. Boctor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-06-01
Series:Photoacoustics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221359791500021X