1891 ALTUKHOV, Nikolai

Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic].

In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a st…

GMN 7243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9412

1908 HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857 – 1916); CLARKE, Robert Henry (1850 – 1926)

The structure and functions of the cerebellum examined by a new method.

Stereotactic apparatus for the accurate location of electrodes in the brain. The apparatus devised by Horsley and Clarke opened the way to stereotactic surgery of the brain.

GMN 1435.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2230

1947 SPIEGEL, Ernest Adolf (1895 – 1985); WYCIS, Henry T. (1911 – 1972); ET AL

Stereotaxic apparatus for operations on the human brain.

"The first successful cranial application of stereotactic surgery in humans is credited to the team of Ernest Spiegel and Henry Wycis in the Department of Experimental Neurology at Temple University in Philadelphia (S…

GMN 4912.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6004

1949 LEKSELL, Lars (1907 – 1986)

A stereotaxic apparatus for intracerebral surgery.

"In 1947 Leksell visited Wycis in Philadelphia and then developed and described his instrument in a publication in 1949. This was the first example of a stereotactic system based on the principle of ‘‘center-of-arc’’.…

GMN 11987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14195

1965 KNIGHT, Geoffrey Cureton (1906 – 1993)

Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness.

GMN 4914.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6022

1968 LEKSELL, Lars (1907 – 1986)

Cerebral radiosurgery, I. Gammathalamotomy in two cases of intractable pain.

Leksell Gamma Knife. "Over the subsequent 50 years Gamma Knife surgery has evolved to cover much of what is done in neurosurgery and there are more than 330 Gamma Knife centers all over the world. By the end of 2017 m…

GMN 11988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14196

1973 KELLY, Desmond Hamilton Wilson (1934 – )

Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: Neurophysiological aspects and operative technique.

With A. Richardson and N. Mitchell-Heggs.

GMN 4914.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6033

1988 KWOH, Yik San

A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.

With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.

GMN 7952 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10127

1994 SMITH, K. R.; FRANK, K. J.; BUCHOLZ, R. D.

The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.

The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …

GMN 8140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10316

1996 ADLER, John R. Jr. (1954 – )

The cyberknife: A frameless robotic system for radiosurgery.

GMN 11989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14197