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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Radiat Oncol. 2015 Feb 23;25(3):181–188. doi: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2015.02.007

Table 2.

Advanced Surgical Techniques in Glioma Surgery

Identification of Tumor
Fluorescence-guided surgery
Intraoperative MRI
Intraoperative ultrasound
Intraoperative microscopy
Mapping Functional Pathways
Direct Stimulation
 • Cortical stimulation
 • Subcortical stimulation
Awake craniotomy with stimulation
Functional imaging
 • Functional MRI
 • Magnetoencephalography
 • Positron emission tomography
Neuronavigation with functional imaging