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Neuronavigation

"Neuronavigation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Intraoperative computer-assisted 3D navigation and guidance system generally used in neurosurgery for tracking surgical tools and localize them with respect to the patient's 3D anatomy. The pre-operative diagnostic scan is used as a reference and is transferred onto the operative field during surgery.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neuronavigation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Neuronavigation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2012
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