Image-guided surgery: virtual-reality technology is giving surgeons the equivalent of x-ray vision, helping them to remove tumors more effectively, to minimize surgical wounds and to avoid damaging critical tissues

Authors :: Grimson, W. Eric L.
Kikinis, Ron
Jolesz, Ferenc A.
Black, Peter McL.
Source :: Scientific American. June, 1999, Vol. 280 Issue 6, p62, 8 p.
Publication Year :: 1999

Subjects :: Brain
Surgery -- Innovations
Virtual reality -- Usage
Medicine -- Information management

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