Comparison of registration accuracy of skin- and bone-implanted fiducials for frameless stereotaxis of the brain: a prospective study.

The registration accuracy of skin- and bone-implanted fiducials using a frameless stereotactic system were analyzed prospectively.Twenty-eight patients underwent resection of intra-axial neoplasmas after both skin- and bone-implantable fiducial markers were placed. Both sets of fiducials were independently co-registered to a magnetic resonance imaging data set acquired preoperatively using the ISG Viewing Wandtrade mark.