Perioperative Imaging and Mapping Methods in Glioma Patients
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2021) | Viewed by 76289
Special Issue Editors
Interests: brain mapping; glioma; intraoperative imaging; intraoperative neuromonitoring; primary spine tumor; robotics; spinal navigation; spinal instrumentation; transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Interests: awake craniotomy; brain mapping; glioma; intraoperative imaging; intraoperative neuromonitoring; robotics; spinal navigation; spinal instrumentation; transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will cover state-of-the-art and future developments in perioperative functional mapping and imaging in glioma patients. The last decade has seen significant, yet still subtle, progress in the treatment of patients harbouring gliomas. In addition to new forms of adjuvant therapies, literature on the beneficial effects of surgical resection has accumulated for all types of intrinsic brain tumor. Maximum safe resection as a mainstay of treatment has thus become the common consensus for the majority of peers involved in brain cancer treatment. Developments in the mapping and monitoring of brain function and imaging of gliomas beyond the pure morphology have allowed safe and maximum resection of gliomas, a process that was formerly considered inoperable. Non-invasive functional mapping by, for example, navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation helps to stratify risks and modify surgical strategies beforehand. Beyond the routine application of motor and language mapping, including tracts, higher cortical functions will be included in the near future. Modern and complex MR techniques, in conjunction with biological/metabolic imaging, helps to guide pre-,intra- and postoperative interventions as well as prognosis predictions. The implementation of AI and machine learning will advance this even further.
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer
Prof. Dr. Sandro Krieg
PD. Dr. Jens Gempt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- preoperative non-invasive mapping
- surgical risk stratification
- influencing surgical strategy
- higher cortical functions
- preoperative imaging
- tumor grading/heterogeneity
- postoperative imaging
- tumor progression
- post-therapeutic changes
- molecular imaging
- machine learning
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