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Member • Aug 9, 2013
Robot Sucks Blood Right Out Of Your Brain
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At present, surgery is performed on the brain and a hole is drilled in the skull. Unless the clot is on the periphery, there's always a danger of damaging healthy tissues in the process. The new robot consists of a tube-within-a-tube. The outer tube is straight and is < 1/20 of an inch in diameter. It's injected in the brain and using CT scan's reference, the robot carefully pushes a very thin tube inside the brain - which sucks the blood out of the clot. The experiments performed in the laboratory indicated that up to 92% of the blood clot could be removed using the new robot.
The next challenge in front of the research team is to add ultrasound imaging techniques to the robot so that a computerised model of the clot can be formed. We've a video below that shows you the robot. Check it out!