POSTS TAGGED AS neurosurgery

Culturing Brain Tissue

Technology to Culture Brain Tissue
In tissue culturing a medullary preparation, technicians often use a tilt device that manipulates the [MORE]

New Bone Cement

Kyphon Balloon – Kyphoplasty
Patients suffering from compression fractures of the spine can undergo a minimally invasive procedure called balloon [MORE]

Ultrasound Clot Busting

Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Stroke
With an apparatus resembling a Gamma Knife, University of California, San Diego professor Thilo Hoelscher [MORE]

Rechargeable Deep Brain Stimulator

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Paul, MN) has implanted its first rechargeable deep brain stimulator in a Parkinson’s patient’s brain [MORE]

Neurosurgery simulator

After a year and a half of development, Canada’s National Research Council has announced that its neurosurgical simulator is ready [MORE]

Focused Ultrasound for Brain Surgery

Combining ultrasound and MRI, neurosurgeons in Switzerland successfully eliminated small sections of brain tissue that were causing chronic pain in [MORE]

Blast Meter Measures Impact

Helmet Measures Blast Impact
Explosions create shock waves that can cause brain injury, which might go undiagnosed for a long time.  [MORE]

Neurotransmitter Monitor

Assessing Neurotransmiters
In deep brain stimulation, surgeons still have difficulty determining if and where neurotransmitters have been activated.  Recently, though, the [MORE]