Electrophysiological and Anatomical Correlates of Spinal Cord Optical Coherence Tomography.

ABSTRACT: Despite the continuous improvement in medical imaging technology, visualizing the spinal cord poses severe problems due to structural or incidental causes, such as small access space and motion artifacts. In addition, positional guidance on the spinal cord is not commonly available during surgery, with the exception of neuronavigation techniques based on static pre-surgical data and of radiation-based methods, such as fluoroscopy. A fast, bedside, intraoperative real-time imaging, particularly necessary during the positioning of endoscopic probes or tools, is an unsolved issue. The objective of our work, performed on experimental rats, is to demonstrate potential intraoperative spinal cord imaging and probe guidance by optical coherence tomography (OCT). Concurrently, we aimed to demonstra

SUBMITTER: Giardini ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4822845 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature