Robotic through-the-cheek brain surgery now possible inside the all-seeing eye of an MRI

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Responsible epilepsy surgery now demands precision control of surgical instruments to get up close to the cells that cause it. Faced with the impossibility of bringing a machine into the OR that transforms gas cylinders into missiles, researchers at Vanderbilt are now proposing to do the only other thing left -- bring the surgery into the MRI.
  • By John Hewitt
  • October 24, 2014
  • Posted in Technology
  • Tagged Brain, brains, Electronics, Extreme, fmri, magnets, medicine, MRI, Neuroscience, , , Vanderbilt University

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