Computer-assisted planning for minimally invasive anterior two-thirds laser corpus callosotomy: A feasibility study with probabilistic tractography validation

Highlights • Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a novel minimally invasive technique for the treatment of epilepsy.• We test computer assisted planning with LITT to disrupt seizure spread.• Trajectory parameters and models were automatically generated from a single T1 image.• Probabilistic tractography revealed comparable interhemispheric disconnection to blinded expert surgeons.

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