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Epilepsy

Advanced Imaging Technique Allows for More Accurate Neurosurgery

From the outside, it may look like a gray lump of tissue, covered with ridges and bumps. But inside, an incredibly complex network of thread-like white fibers carries signals back and forth between areas of the brain and the spinal cord. Each fiber is crucial to a particular aspect of how our mind communicates with our body.

But until now, brain surgeons haven’t been able to see those fibers, called white-matter tracts. Invisible to the naked eye, and impossible to see on normal brain scans, they fall victim to even the most careful surgeon’s hand during operations to remove tumors or calm severe epilepsy. And...

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