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Cranial Functional WorkflowAutomate planning for cases
that demand steep dose gradients

Plan your functional indications with dedicated and effective workflows

Elements Cranial functional workflow is dedicated to treatment planning for indications that require the highest precision, like trigeminal neuralgia and essential tremor. This workflow, which involves several intelligent software applications, utilizes conical collimators to generate plans with steep dose gradients that preserve neurological function.

Preparing for functional planning

We’ve built automation into every step of the pre-planning workflow: distortion correction, object segmentation including the basal ganglia, fibertracking, image fusion and trajectory planning.

Correction of fused images

Elements Distortion Correction corrects patient-specific distortions by applying deformable registration exclusively to the brain, respecting the anatomical ground truth.

Screenshot of Elements Distortion Correction: correction of fused images

3D outlining of Basal Ganglia Region

Unique to Brainlab, patient-specific anatomical mapping automatically creates 3D objects including critical structures of the basal ganglia region. With Elements Segmentation, a synthetic tissue model is applied to classify brain tissues and to detect abnormalities or asymmetries. Overcoming the limitations of traditional atlas technology, tissue-based automatic segmentation results in highly individualized patient datasets for reliable extraction of relevant target structures and OARs.

Screenshot of the Cranial functional workflow in Elements: 3D outlining of Basal Ganglia Region

Enriching images with fibertracking

By processing patient-specific diffusion tensor imaging with Elements Fibertracking, now more than ever, you are able to enrich anatomical images with detailed information about white matter structures to preserve vital functions. This application processes and visualizes Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data to advance functional treatment planning.

Elements Fibertracking

Approach planning with all relevant data

Elements Trajectory Planning supports well-informed approach planning all in one place. This tool enables you to plan multiple trajectories for neurosurgical approaches comprised of relevant data such as target structure, segmented objects and fiber tracts.

Elements Trajectory Planning Cranial

Creating the Elements Cranial SRS w/ Cones dose plan

With pre-planning complete, planning can continue with Elements Cranial SRS w/ Cones.

Accurate target placement

Accurate target placement

With all the information about different datasets, fibertracking, trajectories and critical structures, highly accurate target placement can be facilitated.

Optimized arc placement

Accurate target placement

With all the information about different datasets, fibertracking, trajectories and critical structures, highly accurate target placement can be facilitated.

Display of fiber tracts in planning

Accurate target placement

With all the information about different datasets, fibertracking, trajectories and critical structures, highly accurate target placement can be facilitated.

Arc plane view

Accurate target placement

With all the information about different datasets, fibertracking, trajectories and critical structures, highly accurate target placement can be facilitated.

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