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- noun medicine
Stereotaxic surgery : surgery that uses athree-dimensional coordinate system to locate smalltargets inside thebody .
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Elekta innovations in stereotaxy span six decades and began with the widely known Leksell Gamma Knife® system for highly targeted treatments of brain tumors and other head and neck lesions.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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The NeuroArm robotic system is designed to perform microsurgery and biopsy-stereotaxy applications on the brain with unprecedented precision.
Market News 2010
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Electrode-implantation was performed under general anaesthesia with MRI-guided stereotaxy followed by the implantation of the internal pulse generator.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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