Brain surgery without breaking the skin a success at University of Calgary
This is pretty effin cool. Yeah Science!
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It uses new technology called magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), which accesses the brain without cutting the patient’s skin or drilling into their skull.
“We are able to see the brain with real-time imaging and target a beam of high intensity ultrasound to the region responsible for tremor,” said Dr. Zelma Kiss, a neurosurgeon and professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM).
Kiss said the patient is awake throughout the entire brain procedure.
Pharaon said he didn’t feel anything during the procedure and said the tremor in his right hand was gone immediately after the surgery.
I saw this on Global two nights ago, the before and after videos of a gentleman with symptoms akin to Parkinson's was simply amazing. Wondering if this will break through to other neurological disorders.
you read about stuff like this, or sending signals to space probes billions of miles away and you really have to be amazed at the ingenuity of our spieces.
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Brain surgery without breaking the skin a success at University of Calgary
