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Scientists at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a laser that can target and...

 

The researchers say this technology is both easier and more cost-effective than the more invasive treatments commonly used. It’s potential use is particularly promising in brain cancer victims due to its non-invasive nature, the laser’s ability to go through thin bone like the skull, and the femtosecond laser radiation which according to Parigger helps, “avoid heating up too many other things that you do not want heated.

 

” Now that the technology has been developed, Parigger and his colleagues are in the process of commercializing it and making it widely available.

 

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