Journal Article

Advanced Dissection Lab for Neuroanatomy Training

Sabatino, Giovanni, Galieri, Gianluca, Rinaldi, Pierluigi, Mazzucchi, Edoardo, La Rocca, Giuseppe, Pignotti, Fabrizio

2022

Overview

[...]the availability of specimens for neuroanatomical dissection may be limited or expensive if the specimens have to be imported from other countries. [...]we think that a way to fully exploit the educational potential of neurosurgical dissection is to employ multiple technological tools, which assist the trainees during the dissection and create the possibility to collect photographs, videos, and radiologic images. Any time they wanted, the trainees could verify the position of the anatomical structure they had dissected by using the neuronavigation pointer. [...]an “intra-operative” CT scan could be performed at any step of dissection, for example, to verify the amount of bone removed. [...]in this scenario, universities, or anatomical dissection centres, could get specimens from a private company outside Italy. [...]if the trainee follows a predefined schedule, the same head can be more extensively exploited without “wasting” any possibility of learning that is avoiding, for example, any damage to anatomical structures that can be useful for other projects.

• Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
• Subject: Anatomy / Brain research / Computed tomography / Dissection / Endoscopy / Laboratories / Medical imaging / Neurosurgery / Software / Teaching / Training / Ultrasonic imaging