Treating brain clots with robot-controlled steerable needles
Neurology News & Neuroscience News from Medical News Today
Surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain is a perfect job for a robot. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at Vanderbilt University. It employs steerable needles about the size of those used for biopsies to penetrate the brain with minimal damage and suction away the blood clot that has formed...
Original Article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/264643.php
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