Korff Alexander, Follmann Axel, Winter Lukas, de la Fuente Matias, Schmieder Kirsten, Radermacher Klaus
Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Pauwelsstr. 20, Germany.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010;2010:2300-3. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627548.
Trepanation of the skull is a common procedure in neurosurgery with the problems of dural tears and wide cutting gaps. A hand-guided instrument containing a soft-tissue preserving saw whose cutting depth is automatically adapted on the basis of a-priori data (CT, MRI) is envisioned to reduce these problems.
