Doctors at Stanford Health Care are using virtual reality technology as a sophisticated visual tool during brain surgery and to train future neurosurgeons. Photo/Video: Jake Nicol/The Wall Street JournalGary Steinberg, Stanford University’s head of neurosurgery, has been operating on brains for more than three decades. Only in the past year has he been able to do something that he says gives him a significant advantage: preview the surgery and practice it. Donning a virtual-reality headset, the 64-year-old works through thickets of digital blood vessels in a precise computer simulation of a patient’s gray matter before he cuts into...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 05, 2017 12:00 UTC