SMART tool compensates for surgeons' hand tremors

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No matter how steady you try to hold your hand, it will still tremble several times a second, moving a distance roughly the same as the thickness of a sheet of paper each time. While that might not matter much for the average person, it can be a very big deal to surgeons performing fine-scale surgery on things like eyes or nerve fibers. While there are experimental robotic devices to help smooth out the shakes, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have come up with something else – a surgical tool with a jiggling tip... Continue Reading SMART tool compensates for surgeons' hand tremors

Section: Science and Education

Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Laser, Surgery

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