Roch Comeau, PhD.

Roch Comeau obtained a Master's degree in Medical Radiation Physics, specializing in visualization for radiation therapy planning. In 2000, he obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering performing research in the field of image-guided neurosurgery.

Publications:

Peer reviewed papers

R. M. Comeau, A Fenster, and T. M. Peters, 2000. Intraoperative ultrasound for guidance and tissue shift correction in image-guided neurosurgery, Medical Physics, 27(4):787-800

R. M. Comeau, A Fenster, and T. M. Peters, 1998. Intraoperative US in Interactive Image-guided Neurosurgery. Radiographics 17(4):1019-27.

R. M. Comeau, A. Fenster, A. Sadikot and T.M. Peters, Combining Intraoperative Ultrasound and Preoperative MR Imaging for Improved Image Guidance in Neurosurgery SPIE Proceedings, Image Processing 3338(1):747-54.

D. G. Gobbi, R. M. Comeau and T. M Peters, 1999. Ultrasound Probe Tracking for Real-Time Ultrasound/MRI Overlay and Visualization of Brain Shift., Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI'99, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 920-27

D.G. Gobbi, R.M. Comeau, B.K.H. Lee and T.M. Peters. Correlation of Pre-Operative MRI and Intra-Operative 3D Ultrasound to Measure Brain Tissue Shift SPIE Proceedings, Medical Imaging 2000, 12-17 February, San Diego, CA.

A. C. Bastos, R. M. Comeau, F Andermann, D. Melancon, F. Cendes, F. Dubeau, S. Lafontaine, D. Tampieri, and A. Olivier, 1999. Diagnosis of Subtle Focal Dysplastic Lesions: Curvilinear Multiplanar Reformatting From 3D MRIAnnals of Neurology, 46(1):88-94

T. M. Peters, R. Comeau, P. Munger, B. L. K. Davey, L. Pisani, A. Sadikot and A. Olivier, 1996. Image-guided Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Proceedings 2, 635-36

Davey, B. L., Comeau R. M., Gabe, C., Olivier, A. and Peters T. M., Interactive Stereoscopic Image-guided Neurosurgery, SPIE Proceedings, Image Display, 2164, 167-76, 1998 San Diego CA.

A. Olivier, M. Alonso-Vanegas, R. Comeau and T. M. Peters, 1996. Image-guided surgery of epilepsy Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 7(2):229-43

L. J. Pisani, R. Comeau, B. L. K. Davey and T. M. Peters, 1995. Incorporation of stereoscopic video into an image-guided neurosurgery environment. Proceedings of 17th International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology 365-66

T. Paus, R. Jech, C. J. Thompson, R. Comeau, T. Peters, and A. C. Evans, 1997. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation during Positron Emission Tomography: A New Method for Studying Connectivity of the Human Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience 17(9):3178-84

T. Paus, R. Jech, C. J. Thompson, R. Comeau, T. Peters, and A. C. Evans, 1998. Dose-Dependent Reduction of Cerebral Blood Flow During Rapid-Rate Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Human Sensorimotor Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 79(2):1102-07

Bittar R. G., Olivier A., Sadikot A. F., Andermann F., Comeau R. M., Cyr M., Peters T. M. and Reutens D. C., 1999. Localization of somatosensory function by using positron emission tomography scanning: a comparison with intraoperative cortical. Journal of Neurosurgery 90(3):478-83

T. Peters, B. Davey, P. Munger, R. Comeau, A. Evans and A. Olivier, 1996. Three-Dimensional Multimodal Image-Guidance for Neurosurgery, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 15(2):121-28

Peer reviewed abstracts

R. M. Comeau and T. M. Peters, Intra-Operative Ultrasound Imaging in Interactive Image Guided Neurosurgery, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, December 1996: InfoRad exhibit and platform presentation

R. M. Comeau, A Sadikot, A Olivier, M. A. Audette, A Fenster and T. M. Peters, Combining Intraoperative Ultrasound and Preoperative 3D MRI for Interactive Image Guided Neurosurgery Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, December 1997: InfoRad exhibit

R. M. Comeau, A. Fenster and T. M. Peters, Detecting Brain Tissue Deformation Using Intra-Operative Ultrasound Imaging In Interactive Image Guided Neurosurgery, 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Physicists in Medicine, Charlottetown PEI, 1997: Platform presentation

R. M. Comeau, A. Fenster, A. Sadikot and T. M. Peters, Detecting And Correcting Brain Tissue Deformation Using Intra-Operative Ultrasound Imaging In Interactive Image Guided Neurosurgery, 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Physicists in Medicine, London ON, 1998: Poster presentation

A. C. Bastos, R. M. Comeau, D. Melancon, D. Tampieri, F. Dubeau, T. Peters and F Andermann, Image analysis of gyral architecture in cortical dysgenesis by using curvilinear reformating of 3D MRI, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Americal Epilepsy Society, Boston, Massachusetts,

R. M. Comeau, A. Fenster, A. Sadikot and T. M. Peters, Combining Intraoperative Ultrasound and Preoperative MR Imaging for Improved Image Guidance in Neurosurgery. Presented at Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, Montreal QC, 1998: Poster presentation

R. M. Comeau, T. M. Peters and T. Paus, Optically Based Frameless Stereotaxy for Image Guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Presented at Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, Dusseldorf, 1999: Poster presentation

A.F. Sadikot, D. Reutens, R.M. Comeau, E. Meyer, T.M. Peters, A. Olivier, Image-guided Interactive Neurosurgery for Correlation of PET->MRI and Intraoperative Cortical Stimulation, Poster Presentation, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Minneapolis, MN, 1996

M. A. Alonso-Vanegas, R.M. Comeau, B.L.K. Davey, M. Preul, E. Brust-Mascher, T.M. Peters and A. Olivier, Guided Neurosurgery Using The ISG Viewing Wand In Epilepsy Surgery: Review of 60 Cases, Poster Presentation, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Minneapolis, MN, 1996

A.F. Sadikot, B.L.K. Davey, R.M. Comeau, M. Panisset, G. Bertrand, and T.M. Peters, Frame-based Interactive Image Guidance for Functional Neurosurgery, Platform Presentation, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 1996

A.F. Sadikot, B.L.K. Davey, R.M. Comeau, G. Bertrand, T.M. Peters, Validation of an Interactive Image Guidance System for Functional Neurosurgery Poster Presentation, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Minneapolis, MN, 1996

Comeau R.M., Fallone B.G. The Design and Implementation of a 3D Treatment Planning System, Medical Physics, 19(3) p841. (Oral presentation and poster at AAPM 1992) Conference presentations and book chapters

A. Olivier, M. Cyr, R. Comeau, T. Peters, W. Boling, D. Klein and D. Reutens, Image Guided Surgery of Epilepsy and Intrinsic Brain Tumours, Book Chapter in Advanced Neurosurgical Navigation, E. Alexander III and R. J. Maciunas Editors, Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., New York, NY. 39:469-82