Innovative robotic MRI system may improve neurosurgery for Parkinson's patients

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Robot prototype operating within a standard head coil in magnetic resonance imaging environment. Courtesy of the University of Hong Kong. 

Mechanical engineers and surgeons from the University of Hong Kong have recently developed what could be the world's first neurosurgical robotic system that can perform bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery on a patient inside an MRI machine.