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MNPS

System for planning stereotactic procedures, functional neurosurgery, stereotactic brachytherapy and multimodal fusion of images. It has versions for the main stereotactic frames available in the market, with automatic recognition of fiducial markers. It allows to perform the multimodal fusion of images for CT, MRI and PET with Maximization of the Mutual Information and the fusion with several functional stereotactic atlases.

Features
Resources
Stereotactic Frames
Support for DBS
Configurations
O.S. and Hardware

The MNPS program is the result of more than 20 years of development of planning techniques for stereotactic procedures based on personal computers and neuroimaging and has support for the main stereotactic frames available in the market.
All techniques are tridimensional (3D) and based on the parametrization of each tomographic, magnetic resonance and stereotactic angiography section plane.

In order to ease functional surgery procedure planning, several stereotactic atlases were digitalized to vectorial shape and various resources incorporated to achieve the maps overlay over reformatted stereo-tomographies slices. Many parameters guarantee control over the atlas space orientation in relation to the patient's brain, being the anterior and the posterior commissure essential to that.

In order to include magnetic resonance to the plan, lowering the impact of its geometric distortion, a multimode image fusion technique was created. This method considers stereo-tomography space as a rigid volume and allows a slight plasticity in resonance volume (with control over the módulo de rigidez). The algorythm is of 3D domain, semi-automatic, not being critical in case of superposition of partial volumes and is stable when applied in images with artifacts and retrospective studies.
There are no principle limitations in mutual orientation of tomography and resonance cuts to be fused.

The incorporation of such methods increases the safety of procedures, lowers their invasion and reduces surgical time.
- Registration and multimodal image fusion.
- Import Dicom CT, MRI and PET.
- Image registration in stereotactic volume.
- Automatic location of stereotactic fiducials.
- 2D and 3D reconstructions.
- Atlas Vector Maps for Functional Neurosurgery.
- DBS geometric model.
- Electrical field modeling and VTA to simulate DBS effect.
- Automatic and manual targeting.
- Tractography.
- 2D-3D Registration for location of pairs of X-ray images.
- Stereotactic brachytherapy with I-125.
MNPS has versions for the following stereotactic apparatus:
- Adeor-Zeppelin
- Brainlab
- Bramsys
- BRW
- CRW
- Estereoflex
- FiMe
- Leksell
- Macom
- MHT
- Micromar TM-03B
- Riechert-Mundinger
- ZD
MNPS supports DBS from the following manufacturers:
- Medtronic
- St. Jude
- Boston Scientific
- SceneRay

Operating system: Windows 10 - 64 bits
Minimum Hardware Configuration:
- 4-core Intel i5 CPU with 2.7 GHz
- RAM - 8 GB
- HD or SSD 400 GigaBytes or larger, preferably SSD.
- Video Card: NVidia GeForce 1 GB
- Screen resolution: 1920x1080
Antivirus: NOD32 (ESET) or Windows Defender (Microsoft) only.

Configuration	Resources	Optional
Basic	Image processing capabilities. Resources for Stereotaxy.	No
Functional Neurosurgery Module	Stereotactic atlases. DBS Resources	Yes
Tractography Module	Features for tractography: rendering od 2D and 3D fibers, intersection of fibers with volumes, etc.	Yes
Radiosurgery Module	See MNPS-RS	Yes

MNPS

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