{"id":2635,"date":"2013-08-12T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:17","slug":"vise-collaboration-impacts-future-of-neurosurgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/vise-collaboration-impacts-future-of-neurosurgery\/","title":{"rendered":"ViSE collaboration impacts future of neurosurgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at 国产传媒 are designing robots that may one day assist neurosurgeons in treating brain clots.<\/p>\n

\"\"The robots are part of an image-guided surgical system that would use steerable needles to penetrate the brain with minimal damage and then suction away blood clots. The robots are being developed in a collaboration between a team of engineers and physicians headed by Robert J. Webster III, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Kyle Weaver, a professor of neurological surgery.<\/p>\n

Webster\u2019s team has designed a steerable needle system, which he calls an active cannula. It consists of a series of thin, nested tubes, with each having a different curvature.<\/p>\n

By precisely rotating, extending and retracting these tubes, a neurosurgeon would be able to to follow a curving path, allowing surgical procedures with minimal contact to areas of the brain unaffected by a hemorrhage.<\/p>\n

For more information: http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2013\/08\/brain-clot-robot\/<\/a>
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