The Stealth Autoguide Robot from Medtronic allows implantation of invasive electrodes to be inserted into the brain to identify patients suitability for surgery. It fixes on to the operating table and rotates around the patients head, allowing 360-degree access to the cranium and provides a targeting framework to drill holes in the skull and allow access to deep targets within the brain with accuracy to plan a variety of intracranial trajectories.
The robot will improve the safety and accuracy of surgical targeting of intracranial lesions , thus it would also support biopsies of deep-seated tumours in the adult and paediatric population and like most stereotactic techniques, it would improve safety and yield when targeting lesions close to eloquent intracranial structures by virtue of providing a fixed base (in relation to the patients skull) as opposed to to purely manual techniques.
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