A novel stereotaxic system for implanting a curved lead to two intracranial targets with high accuracy

Safety and feasibility of curved lead simultaneously implanted into pedunculopontine nucleus and subthalamic nucleus

“…With the aid of the novel stereotaxic system and the automatic calculation algorithm for the “curved lead pathway”, [ 5 , 6 ] we successfully implanted the curved lead to both STN and PPN in a rat model. The similar functional outcomes between curved lead group and straight lead group revealed that the curved lead passing through STN and located at PPN is feasible and safe.…”

Patient-specific ventricular puncture trajectory plane and puncture trajectory: a novel method of frontal ventricular puncture

“…This novel method enables ventricular puncture with adequate pre-operative evaluation and theoretical high accuracy. Referring to the theoretical innovation of “implanting a curved lead to subthalamic nucleus and pedunculopontine nucleus,” [ 5 ] the core of this ventricular puncture method is to reconstruct the image plane that passes through the targets and contains the potential VPT.…”