A flexible film bristling with tiny sensors could make surgery safer for patients with a brain tumor or severe epilepsy.
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“If somebody is a mathematician, we’ll give them a math formula,” Raslan says. “If somebody is a painter, we’ll give them what’s called a visual cognition task.” That’s possible because each sensor on the new grid is “a fraction of the diameter of the human hair,” Dayeh says. And the grid itself is bonded to a plastic film so thin and flexible that it conforms to every contour of the brain’s surface.The device works well in animals. And in May, the FDA approved it for testing in people.
The new grid is one of the tools, Ngai says. But it also promises to improve care for people with brain disorders.
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