An airo ct was taken of the patient in the prone position.
The ct was transferred onto a usb and loaded onto the robot.
An automatic merge was performed; however, the merge was unsuccessful.
It appeared that the ct was fully rotated on the axis and over 45 degrees off from the mri.
The merge was performed twice more with cutting extra slices on the top and bottom of the set; however, this did not work.
A semi-automatic merge was attempted with 5 points, but this made the image worse.
It was confirmed that the airo options for prone and axial ct had been selected.
Another mri was loaded onto the patient (this one of a sagittal view) and merged to the original mri on the plan.
The ct was then merged to this second mri and was able to merge successfully.
The surgeon was upset that the software could not perform the automatic merge itself and that there was no option to align the two images partially and allow the software to do the automatic merge from that point.
A delay of over an hour occurred during this time while the patient was under anesthesia.
This was an rns case.
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