Paradigm Shift in the Field of Spinal Diagnosis and Treatment in 2025
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 1328
Special Issue Editor
2. Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama, Japan
Interests: navigation; spine; cervical; scoliosis; adult spinal deformity; endoscopic surgery; MIS
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, new spinal imaging technology and innovative spinal surgery has been emerging. For the imaging technology, dynamic contrast-enhanced (DSC) MR perfusion imaging can differentiate hyper- from hypovascular spinal tumors. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are MRI techniques based on measuring the microscopic diffusion of water in living tissues, which is available for spinal intramedullary tumors. Furthermore, 3D-MRI/CT fusion imaging can demonstrate the lumbar nerve root being compromised.
These imaging technologies, spinal navigation, and robot-assisted surgery together provide spine surgeons with innovative options for spinal surgery. The advantages of applying robotic technology in spine surgery include the possibility of improving screw accuracy and reducing complications. Spinal navigation surgery has been developing for twenty years. Because of the increase in the aging population around the world, minimally invasive surgery (MIS), such as the endoscopic technique, has been in a rapid phase of development since the turn of the 21st century.
With these technological developments, this Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles.
Specific topics of interest include investigations of the human spine that demonstrate the following:
- Advances in image acquisition, including dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT), new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, and 3D-MRI/CT fusion imaging.
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Novel spinal surgery, which includes new technology or imaging techniques, as well as navigation, robot-assisted surgery, and endoscopic surgery.
Dr. Masato Tanaka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- mixed reality
- navigation
- emerging technologies (robot-assisted surgery)
- functional MRI
- fusion images
- new innovative diagnostic tools
- scoliosis
- adult spinal surgery
- spinal tumor
- spondylodiscitis
- minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- aging spine
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