Enhancing Awake Neurosurgery With A Patient-Worn Head-Mounted Device

Abstract

Techniques for enhancing awake brain surgery include a navigation system to track a pose of a surgical instrument relative to a pose of the target anatomy of a patient. A head-mounted device (HMD) is worn by the patient during surgery. A control system is in communication with the navigation system and the HMD. The control system registers one or more images with the target anatomy. The control system identifies a structure of the target anatomy based on the one or more images of the target anatomy. The control system detects the pose of the surgical instrument being proximate to the identified structure of target anatomy, and based on such, the control system controls the HMD to generate an output to provoke a response of the patient.

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