Neuro-Comrade:
Navigated mechatronic guidance system for neurosurgery
Honors and Awards:
• Winner of the BMBF Innovation Competition for the Promotion of
Medical Technology, 2006
• Winner of the Subsidy Award of the TL-Foundation, Tuebingen
Cooperative Project of three universities and the company Henke-Sass Wolf, Tuttlingen.
• Neurosurgery Tuebingen, Center for Sensorsystems Siegen, and Iccas Leipzig.
Tuebingen/Leipzig
Tuebingen/Leipzig Siegen
Siegen Tuttlingen
Tuttlingen
Visualization
ViSuALizATiON Robotics
RObOTiCS Optics
OPTiCS
Difficulties in Neurosurgery: Goals of Neuro-Comrade:
Ergonomics • Development of a navigated mecha-
• Conventional operation micro- tronic assistance system for flexible
scopes are often too unmana- movements of new microscopes and
geable for certain interventions endoscopes
in neurosurgery. The surgeons • Replacement of the sizeable head
need to operate around the of the operation microscope with an
microscope and need to stay in HDTV-Optic System of the company
a very unconfortable position Henke-Sass Wolf by simultaneous
for a long time. better image quality.
• The system should provide an opti-
Visualization mum of information to the surgeon.
• Preoperative Imaging (e.g. The preoperativly captured image data
computer tomography or is therefor processed individually and
magnetic resonance imaging) is matched in real time with the optical
and intraoperative data(e.g image.
ultrasound, X-ray radiography • The surgeon can decide during the
or endoscopy) are essential operation, which image representation
for neurosurgery. One of the he wants to choose.
difficulties is to provide the
surgeons only with the impor-
tant informationen from the
different datasources.
Projektleiter: Prof. Duffner (frank.duffner@med.uni-tuebingen.de); UKT Tübingen - Neurochirurgische Klinik
Kontaktadresse: matthias.pfeifle@med.uni-tuebingen.de; Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3; Tel. +49 (7071) 86448
Kontakt universität Siegen: Dr.-Ing. J. Wahrburg, (wahrburg@zess.uni-siegen.de)