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Partnering with GE HealthCare has enabled Medtronic to provide live images to help surgeons assess mid-procedure changes.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research outlines how focused ultrasound could reveal which brain regions cause conscious perception in healthy humans.

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After several years of investigating focused ultrasound as a tool in treating Alzheimer's, the field took a big leap forward this year. Elisa Konofagou, PhD, a biomedical engineer who runs the ...

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