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Short report: surgery for implantable brain-computer interface assisted by robotic navigation system

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We present an implantable brain-computer interface surgical case assisted by robotic navigation system in an elderly patient with tetraplegia caused by cervical spinal cord injury. Left primary motor cortex was selected for implantation of microelectrode arrays based on fMRI location of motor imagery. Robotic navigation system was used during this procedure for precise and stable manipulation. A design of bipartite incision was made to reduce the risk of surgery-related infection and facilitate BCI training. At 1-year follow-up, the neural signals were robust, and this patient was able to control three-dimensional movement of a prosthetic limb without any complications.

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This study was funded by National Key R&D Plan of China (2017YFC1308500).

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    1. Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

      Hongjie Jiang, Rui Wang, Zhe Zheng, Junming Zhu & Jianmin Zhang

    2. Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

      Yu Qi & Kedi Xu

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    Jiang, H., Wang, R., Zheng, Z. et al. Short report: surgery for implantable brain-computer interface assisted by robotic navigation system. Acta Neurochir 164, 2299–2302 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-022-05235-5

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