What You Need To Know
- Hackensack University Medical Center, JFK University Medical Center, and Jersey Shore University Medical Center are now all equipped with QuicktomeTM Brain Mapping Technology.
- The three academic medical centers are the only hospitals in New Jersey offering this technology.
Quicktome is designed to visualize a patient's unique brain networks prior to surgery. The mapping views portions of the brain to identify what not to remove when operating on tumor removals and other brain abnormalities. The technology uses artificial intelligence to process data points derived from a standard MRI scan.
Quicktome is one of the first clinical platforms to allow neurosurgeons to create network templates of an individual's cognitive and emotional regulation networks within the brain. The machine learning algorithm creates patient-specific brain maps, allowing physicians to tailor surgical approaches to a patient's individualized anatomy.
For the treatment of benign and malignant brain tumors and other conditions of the head and neck, the Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center will offer ZAP-X® Gyroscopic Radiosurgery® with Synaptive MRI beginning this fall, a non-invasive precision treatment that delivers high-dose radiation to brain tumors without destroying healthy brain cells. They will be the sixth in the nation to have ZAP-X, the only one in the Northeast, and globally the first to pair it with Synaptive MRI, shortening the time from diagnosis to treatment. The Neuroscience Institute also skillfully uses Gamma Knife, Cyber Knife, proton therapy and fluorescence targeted radiation in the treatment of brain tumors, tremors and other neurological issues.