3-D imaging lets brain surgeons rehearse
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
A surgeon probes a patient's brain and sees her target: a swelling on the side of a blood vessel. It's an aneurysm. She uses tiny clips to cut it off from the blood vessel. But there's a problem: an unseen defect causes the aneurysm to burst, resulting in a massive stroke. But there's no problem — she can try again because it was all done in a simulator.