Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts

http://www.ted.com Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, surgeon Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.

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[beriukay]

Skip to 16:08 for an audio demonstration of focused ultrasound.

[IVIcIVIuffin]

Brilliant Minds in this world...jeez! This is really helping picture the future as I'm just about to start University next year.

[Bobbi Jo Venegas]

im an u.s tech and this is so very exciting to me. i watched it 3x. and now using it as a research paper topic! amazing

[roidroid]

country music

[iMizh]

xD Well that escalated quickly

[dabigisland1]

Amazing technique being used on my son right now in America. And to the former commenter God is Good or Aloha ke Akua for you Hawaiians out there. We should do good as God intended and using science is one tool to do so. I do not understand why there is pain in this world but it is our duty to help others with the tools we have available

[Sylvanas17]

Truly amazing...

[Kaori Kanemitsu]

simply amazing!

[roidroid]

The reason cancer is such a problem is because thesedays we're living such long lives. If we all died young like nature intended, cancer would be relatively rare. Once we're past our prime reproductive age - as far as nature is concerned we're living on borrowed time.

but you know what? fuck nature.

Nature is gonna get shot in the face multiple times with my computer controlled ultrasonic beam. pyew pyew

And then i'm gonna rocket into space with my jetboots.

[19RichieJCook]

Am I the only one that heard him say that this was practically impossible in America because of regulations and cost? Wow...

[dmoney69696969]

You sound like an idiot. If he is omnipotent, and omniscient how could it possibly make a mistake? I thought it was perfect. So that being said if it can make mistakes why worship it?

[VINTONGFX]

as a kid. I wondered if we can use ultrasound in surgery! i'm glad someone developed it!