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New Tech Targets Epilepsy With Lasers, Robots

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Surgical Epilepsy Robotics

CNN's John Sutter talks with Dr. Sharona Benheim, who directs the surgical epilepsy program at UCSD. She says surgeons have been using a robotic system called ROSA to fuse MRI and three-dimensional space of patient's head. It then allows us to essentially steer in stereotactic place a surgical arm that takes us right to our target.

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