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MRI will scan brains in mid-operation

News from Boston's medical and scientific community

June 21, 2005

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Two weeks before Children's Hospital Boston opens its new 11-story clinical building, officials last week unveiled what they're calling the ''OR of the future" for brain surgery. The $5 million operating room is equipped with a unique magnetic resonance imaging system, or MRI, that can be wheeled in and out of the room on tracks in the ceiling so that ... (Full article: 559 words)

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