Theme: Special Issue on 3D Medicine: Virtual planning and intraoperative navigation
Guest Editor: Dr. José Luis Cebrián Carretero and Jorge Guiñales Díaz de Cevallos
Aims & Scope:
This special issue will focus in recent advances in virtual planning, image tests and intraoperative navigation for the diagnosis and treatment of different pathological conditions. In the era of “computer assisted life”, Medicine and Surgery have “burst into the scene” offering our patients the possibility of a better diagnosis and treatment. In the following pages we will show you some of the applications of these tools for a precise and accurate Medicine
Description:
Traditionally we have planned our operations in a 2D way even when we are managing with 3D structures. Recent advances in the field of diagnostic imaging joined to the development of planning software and intraoperative navigation allow us to introduce the third dimension in our diagnosis and treatments.
Surgeons and intervencionist doctors have been always considered as artisans who used their hands to modified Nature. New advances in these areas are not going to substitute our hands, but they offer us a level of accuracy and precision that have not been ever achieved before.
In this volume experts in different aspects of medical Knowledge will show you how they use some of this tools in their daily practice. The issue index will include:
1. Virtual Surgery and CAD_CAM prosthesis in Oral Implantology
2. Virtual Planning and intraoperative Navigation in Trauma Surgery
3. Virtual Planning and intraoperative Navigation in Oncologic and Facial reconstructive Surgery
4. Biologic Markers and Image Test for disease diagnosis: MRI and PET
5. Virtual planning and 3D Surgery in Dentofacial deformities treatment.
6. Minimally invasive Surgery. From the TV screen to 3D Surgery
7. Virtual planning and 3D digital printing. A new approach to cardiovascular malformations.
8. 3D developed Biomaterials for Reconstructive Medicine
Keywords: 3D Medicine, virtual planning, intraoperative navigation, CAD-CAM.
1. Deadline for paper submission: March 31, 2016
2. Revision due: June 15, 2016
3. Final decision notification: July 15, 2016
4. Publication materials due: September 1, 2016