Surgical Planning

The challenges of surgical planning

Surgical planning technology facilitates evaluation of complex anatomy and helps to enhance and speed up disease interpretation. Patient-specific 3D planning is also beneficial when used in the operating room and offered to the surgeon during the intervention as a guide1. The use of planning technology in the O.R., however, is often limited by the difficulty in finding a single, fast, easy-to-use software able to work independently from radiology, load PACS patient images, import patient segmentation obtained by another software, render this in 3D, and fuse the information2.

Illustration: Challenges in surgical planning

Enhancing surgical data

Brainlab Digital O.R. goes far beyond simply consolidating O.R. information into one source and being a central interface for PACS, HIS and VNAs. With Digital O.R.

integration, Brainlab brings its core expertise to the operating room: software tools for enhancing patient images and enabling surgeons to create surgical plans in seconds.

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  1. Lo Presti, G. et al., 2015. Assessment of DICOM Viewers Capable of Loading Patient-specific 3D Models Obtained by Different Segmentation Platforms in the Operating Room. J.Digit.Imaging, 527(5), p. 518.

  2. Mezrich, R., Juluru, K. & Nagy, P., 2011. Should Post-Processing Be Performed by the Radiologist?. J.Digit Imaging, 24(3), pp. 378-381.