{"id":28600,"date":"2016-08-03T01:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T08:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/a-team-of-ex-fighter-pilots-have-invented-a-new-way-for-surgeons-look-inside-brains"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:28:11","slug":"a-team-of-ex-fighter-pilots-have-invented-a-new-way-for-surgeons-look-inside-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/a-team-of-ex-fighter-pilots-have-invented-a-new-way-for-surgeons-look-inside-brains","title":{"rendered":"A team of ex-fighter pilots have invented a new way for surgeons look inside brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-team-of-ex-fighter-pilots-have-invented-a-new-way-for-surgeons-look-inside-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fighter pilots and brain surgeons have a lot in common. With limited time and a high degree of risk, they must zero in on a dangerous target with the intent to destroy, making sure to minimise any collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps no one understands that relationship better than Alon Geri and Moty Avisar, veterans of the Israeli Air Force and co-founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surgicaltheater.net\/site\/who-we-are\">Surgical Theatre<\/a>, an Ohio-based company that brings state-of-the-art virtual reality to brain surgeons.<\/p>\n<p>Physicians in thick black goggles can step inside a patient\u2019s skull, explore the malformed region, craft a strategy for entry, elimination, and exit, and even do dry runs of the surgery itself. When it comes time to make the first incision, there are fewer surprises.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-team-of-ex-fighter-pilots-invented-a-new-way-for-surgeons-look-inside-brains\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-team-of-ex-fighter-pilots-inve...ide-brains<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighter pilots and brain surgeons have a lot in common. With limited time and a high degree of risk, they must zero in on a dangerous target with the intent to destroy, making sure to minimise any collateral damage. Perhaps no one understands that relationship better than Alon Geri and Moty Avisar, veterans of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66694,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions\/66694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}