Brain Surgery: It Really is Brain Surgery


	Brain Surgery: It Really is Brain Surgery

Tommolo

9-4-2007 1:17 AM

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The preoperative MRI image is no longer accurate enough for brain surgery.
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The brain, of course, is an <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/051227_neuron_growth.html" linkindex="23">elastic</A>  object.
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“If you push it,” Chrisochoides said, “it takes energy and then
after a while it settles down. We can calculate the place where it
settles by solving the partial differential equation. Mathematicians
can tell us that there is a solution, but they cannot tell us what the
solution is. There’s no such thing for this equation. There’s no
analytic solution. So we have to approximate.”
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Chrisochoides approximates the geometry of the patient’s brain by
tessellation—dividing it into triangles in three dimensions, or in
other words, generating a mesh representing the brain. It’s work that
NSF has funded for the past seven years he has been at William and
Mary, and earlier this year, Chrisochoides’s work earned him a
prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
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