The specificity of intraoperative US is good, but sensitivity for detecting the last milliliter is low compared with postoperative MRI. Tumor volume and tumor depth are the predictors of achieving gross total resection, although ultrasound image quality was not.
The tumor volumes of LGGs segmented from intraoperative US images were most often smaller than the tumor volumes segmented from preoperative MRIs. There was a much better match between the 2 modalities in astrocytomas.
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