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A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3D map of a patient’s brain has helped surgeons remove a fist-sized tumour from the brain of a woman.

A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3D map of a patient’s brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized tumour from the brain of an Indiana woman.

The surgery was performed at the university hospital by an eight-member team from the Brain Tumor Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute.

Since early 2007, Brain Tumor Center specialists have used the fusion of three types of imaging as a guide to stereotactic surgery.

These include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

In this latest development, however, Dr James Leach, the associate professor of neuroradiology at UC, added computed tomography angiography (CTA), which provides a map of blood vessels (arteries and veins).

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