Advances in Technology-Guided Therapy at Vanderbilt Robert Galloway Jr., PhD Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery
Director
We have been developing Image-Guided Surgery at Vanderbilt University since 1987. As such systems have been created and demonstrated their value, significant additional desired features, applications and functionality have been requested and developed. In 1999 we began a process, first to abstract what we now call Technology-Guided Therapy (TGT) and then to develop a platform on which all new applications can be developed. The new system, called ORION, is localizer, registration and display agnostic and allows information to be brought into the system from a variety of sources. The system is extensible allowing us to add and integrate real-time intraoperative imaging, "dynamic registration" capabilities, simultaneous distinct registrations and to switch displayed images as the surgeon wishes during the procedure. Using ORION we are pursuing functionally guided neurosurgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, image-guided surgery, RF and cryo ablation in liver tumors, gene therapy, image-guided convective brain tumor therapy, cochlear implants and thalamic stimulator implants. |