Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Article Title: Comparison of stereotactic brain biopsy techniques in dogs: neuronavigation, 3D-printed guides, and neuronavigation with 3D-printed guides
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1406928
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Neuronavigation combined with a 3D-printed headframe (BS3D-HF) with cadaver placed in the face mask. The headframes consisted of five major components: the base which secured to the operating table (i) with a table clamp (j), the bottom semi-cylinder which supported the head and mask for each dog (h) which attached to the base, the top arches (a) with depth-screws (b) to secure the dog in the appropriate location used as the fiducial marker, the manipulating holding arm (c), and two holding brackets which attached the bottom arch to the top arches and manipulating holding arm. At the end of the holding arm is an adapter which could house different size holding sleeves (d), either for the sleeve (e) for the pointer (f) or for the Steinmann pins. Lastly, g depicts where the mask attaches to the head frame. (B) A close up the of the mask design within the Meshmixer software.
Article Snippet: For each dog, a 3D printed fiducial marker holder was designed using the 3D modeling software Autodesk ® Meshmixer ( RRID:SCR_ 015736) (V3.5.474, San Rafael, CA, United States), as shown in .
Techniques: Marker, Software