March 3, 2015
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NBC Los Angeles
Doctors Use New 3-D Tech to Prepare for Brain Surgery
Northeast Ohio
For the first time, brain surgeons at UCLA’s Neurosurgery Center can look inside the heads of their patients before they go under the knife. Using a breakthrough tool called the Surgical Theater, doctors can create ultra-realistic 3-D virtual replicas of a patient’s brain and look inside when preparing for surgery.