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Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts

881,018 views | Yoav Medan • TEDMED 2011

Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, 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.

Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, 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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Yoav Medan

Medical inventor

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With his team, Yoav Medan is developing a tool for incision-less surgery via focused ultrasound.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.