Truly non-invasive surgery, where no physical objects actually touch the patient, may seem like something from a distant future. Yet, technology already exists that allows surgeons to do just that for a number of conditions from essential tremor to uterine fibroids.
Yoav Medan of InSightec, a company that builds MR-guided focused ultrasound systems, presented the current state of the technology at TEDMED 2011 and pointed a look into the future. Here’s his talk in its entirety:
Link: InSightec homepage…