Robot assisted stereo-EEG (SEEG) electrode placement

When Oslo University Hospital (OUS) received Cirq by Brainlab the precision data needed to show it was accurate enough for stereo-EEG (SEEG) electrode placement did not exist. So the team built its own test object: a patient specific 3D-printed phantom. 600 electrodes and roughly 300 hours spend at The Intervention Centre later, the measurements and analysis to be used for internal validation to move forward to clinical use and by Brainlab to further develop the system.

After a limited number of clinical cases, electrode placement is right now down from eight minutes to three, and anaesthesia time from about 270 to 200 minutes. OUS has doubled the number of epilepsy operations, to 50 per year.

Read the article in Dagens Medisin (Norwegian): 
https://www.dagensmedisin.no/e-helse-epilepsi-medtek/ous-har-bidratt-til-videreutvikling-av-ny-robot-og-dobler-antallet-epilepsioperasjoner/763659