Vanderbilt: New $2 Million NIH Grant Advances Less Invasive Procedure for TLE
February 17, 2021
February 17, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 17 (TNSRes) -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
A Vanderbilt research team has received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to further develop a needle-size robotic surgery system with real-time MRI guidance for drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
Such a procedure has the potential to reduce or eliminate seizures using a minimally invasive approach over the current standard of care, open brain surgery. A c . . .
A Vanderbilt research team has received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to further develop a needle-size robotic surgery system with real-time MRI guidance for drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
Such a procedure has the potential to reduce or eliminate seizures using a minimally invasive approach over the current standard of care, open brain surgery. A c . . .