Smart Needles

A smart needle is embedded with a camera to help doctors perform safer brain surgery. The device was developed by the University of Adelaide researchers in South Australia and uses a very tiny camera to identify at-risk blood vessels. The probe is the size of a human hair and uses an infrared light to look through the brain.

The probe uses the Internet of Things to send the information to a computer in real-time that alerts doctors of any abnormalities. The University of Western Australia and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital were in collaboration for the project where a 6-month pilot trial …read more