影像导航计算机辅助手术系统中的空间数据结构模型研究

影像导航计算机辅助手术系统（ICAS）是一种为术者提供术野周围重要解剖结构信息的辅助工具，可提高手术安全性和成功率。合理的空间数据结构模型是确保ICAS实现导航功能的关键因素之一。本研究提出了组合邻接表线索化八叉树模型（MALTO），并就基本操作的可实现性和实时性，分析比较了MALTO与4种常用模型的性能。研究结果表明：MALTO不但可以实现数据查找、搜索和计算等基本操作，且具有时间效率优势。因此，MALTO是适合于ICAS的空间数据结构模型。     

A New Cortical Electrode for Neuronavigation-Guided Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring: Technical Note

Intraoperative neurophysiological mapping and monitoring of eloquent brain areas can be combined with image-guided localisation to enhance the safety and efficacy of surgical procedures in the motor cortex. We designed a new type of cortical electrode which can be repeatedly placed on the cortical surface and allows accurate and reproducible stimulation by means of a navigation pointer. The newly designed device consists of a monopolar electrode contact for direct cortical stimulation, housed in a holder which allows placement, easy removal, and precise repeated placement of a surgical navigation pointer. It can be used for navigation-guided, high-frequency anodal monopolar cortical stimulation (MCS) for the mapping of eloquent cortex, and for monitoring of motor pathways. While the cortex is stimulated, compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) are recorded from muscles of the contralateral extremities and are assessed both qualitatively and quantitatively. When the device is used in combination with intraoperative navigation, the stimulation sites may optionally be registered or displayed on the system monitor. This allows repeated pinpointing and obviates the need for strip or grid electrodes in the operative field; although such electrodes may be useful for continuous monitoring, they often are in the surgeon's way. In addition, the primary and supplementary motor cortex can be mapped by determining the location of the sites of stimulation on surface-projected images of the cerebral cortex.     

图像引导对宫颈癌放疗中直肠、膀胱照射剂量的影响

目的 分析宫颈癌根治性外照射图像引导与否对直肠和膀胱受照剂量的影响,探讨IGRT技术合理应用的模式。方法 选取2012—2016年于陆军总院行HT的宫颈癌患者20例。每次治疗前均进行MVCT扫描,应用MVCT图像在HT的自适应模块上进行剂量重建,得到当次的受量,并模拟出该次无图像引导下的受量;将各单次剂量分布和对应的融合CT图像传输至形变软件MIM6.0中进行剂量叠加,得到总照射剂量。对比图像引导与否对直肠及膀胱受量和体积的影响。结果 无图像引导的Plan-2的直肠和膀胱受量均高于图像引导下的Plan-1,其中直肠Dmax、V50及膀胱V50均不同(P=0.040、0.000、0.047);分次间初次治疗的Dmax和V50及治疗第13~21次的直肠V50与Plan-1比差异有统计学意义(P=0.047、0.037,P=0.009、0.017、0.028),首次及21~23次放疗的膀胱Vmax、V50与Plan-1比接近有统计学意义(P=0.061、0.053,P=0.072、0.058)。结论 图像引导可以降低直肠和膀胱的受照剂量及体积,尤其是直肠从图像引导获益更大;建议外照射半量左右(13次左右),肿瘤退缩明显时段,重新定位修改治疗计划;对于难以实现全程图像引导的情况下,进行选择性的图像引导,也可以达到有效地降低直肠和膀胱损伤发生的效果。     

Evaluating the safety profile of focused ultrasound and microbubble-mediated treatments to increase blood-brain barrier permeability

Introduction: Treatment of several diseases of the brain are complicated by the presence of the skull and the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Focused ultrasound (FUS) and microbubble (MB)-mediated BBB treatment is a minimally invasive method to transiently increase the permeability of blood vessels in targeted brain areas. It can be used as a general delivery system to increase the concentration of therapeutic agents in the brain parenchyma.

Areas covered: Over the past two decades, the safety of using FUS+MBs to deliver agents across the BBB has been interrogated through various methods of imaging, histology, biochemical assays, and behavior analyses. Here we provide an overview of the factors that affect the safety profile of these treatments, describe methods by which FUS+MB treatments are controlled, and discuss data that have informed the assessment of treatment risks.

Expert opinion: There remains a need to assess the risks associated with clinically relevant treatment strategies, specifically repeated FUS+MB treatments, with and without therapeutic agent delivery. Additionally, efforts to develop metrics by which FUS+MB treatments can be easily compared across studies would facilitate a more rapid consensus on the risks associated with this intervention.