The Nation - News from Jan. 13, 1985
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A computer is providing neurosurgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., with three-dimensional “road maps” to navigate deep into a patient’s brain during surgery and pinpoint tumors that can be vaporized with lasers. Dr. Patrick J. Kelly, who developed the procedure and has performed more than 100 computer-assisted operations since July, said the method relies on a computer to guide a laser beam more precisely than it would be possible to do manually.
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