Performing brain surgery without a scalpel - Hyunsoo Joshua No
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Every year, tens of thousands of people have brain surgery without a single incision: there’s no scalpel, no operating table, and the patient loses no blood. Instead, this procedure uses a machine that emits invisible beams of light at a precise target inside the brain. So how exactly does this treatment work? And what does it do to the tumors it targets? Hyunsoo No explains radiosurgery.
Multiple beams of radiation, that are distributed at different angles, are used to limit radiation dose outside of the tumor. What other ways can be used to reduce dose outside of an intended target?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Hyunsoo Joshua No
- Director Luísa Holanda
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist Luísa Holanda
- Animator Maurício Canterle, Felipe Urbanetto
- Compositor Gabriel Maia
- Art Director Luísa Holanda
- Sound Designer Gabriel Maia
- Music Gabriel Maia
- Hype Executive Producer Gabriel Garcia
- Hype Line Producer Taíla Soliman
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
