PAstudent Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehockeykid Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 watched 2 mins of it, sounds like a cool idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandibular Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 the concept is the same thing as the gamma knife but with ultrasound. Im curious to see how they can make sure to take out the tumour with a proper margin. Also, what happens to the remnant necotic tissue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 the concept is the same thing as the gamma knife but with ultrasound. Im curious to see how they can make sure to take out the tumour with a proper margin. Also, what happens to the remnant necotic tissue? It's sort of a sophisticated lithotripsy I suppose. Not especially applicable to bowel resections or any kind of procedure requiring very specific and/or variable dissection. And we already have stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral tumours and AVMs, and of course targeted beam radiation for, as in his example, palliative treatment of bone mets. Anyhow, this is just a promotional video. At the end he starts talking about how this will "liquefy" clots in the brain, though I wonder whether this will be better or more feasible than tPA, let alone all the fancy techniques used in the neuro-angio suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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