Mercy’s NeuroScience Institute was one of the first in the state with the StealthStation Treatment Guidance Platform. The Stealth allows physicians to create a three-dimensional image of the patient’s anatomy from standard CT and MRI images. 

During surgery, the computer uses an optical scanner mounted above the operating table to follow the surgeon’s instrument. This type of image-guided surgery is used to perform deep brain stimulation, a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

The Stealth, still one of only two in the state, begins a new era in surgical navigation by giving surgeons image-guided surgery capability for tremendous precision when removing tumors or implanting devices. It improves surgical outcomes, limits patients and medical staff to radiation exposure and is becoming the standard of care for many cranial, spinal, sinus and radiosurgical procedures.

The Stealth decreases the size of the scalp incision, craniotomy, or corticotomy as well as the extent of surgical resection as well as decreases the rate and severity of complications in surgery. It also speeds recovery, reduces operation time.