“iKnife” Surgical Tool with Mass SpecM
October 7, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

Smart Surgical Knife
Tagline has reported on earlier attempts to link an electro-surgical knife with a mass spectrometer to guide surgeons to the margins of tumor removal, but this piece, from the Budapest Semmelweis Medical University show a significant advance: “At the moment we are able to produce not only the mass spectrometry information within about half a second, but also analyze it and identify the kind of tumor on which the surgeon is operating, . . . This whole process can be done in 0.7 second at the moment.” MORE
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