Table 1.

A summary of the clinical result by using iMRI for tumor resection.

Publication	Author	Year	Contribution	Number of patients	Result
[24]	Hadani et al.	2001	iMR development	20	Total resection of all low grade tumors
[25]	Knauth et al.	1999	Clinical usage evaluation	41	Complete resection was diagnosed in 15 cases but was performed in 31 cases with iMRI
[26]	Hall et al.	2000	iMR development	30	Complete resection in 24 cases
[27]	Hall et al.	2000	Clinical usage evaluation	30	Complete resection in 24 cases
[28]	Nimsky et al.	2001	Clinical usage evaluation	16	Complete resection in 14 cases
[29]	Black et al.	1999	Clinical usage evaluation	31	In more than one-third of the cases, tumor residual was detected with iMRI where the surgeon considered a complete removal without iMRI