{"id":1524,"date":"2011-06-02T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2011-06-09T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:30:15","slug":"star-wars-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/star-wars-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Technology&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing the advances that have occurred in the <strong>Medical<\/strong> field&#8230;..  Our <em><strong>drummer<\/strong><\/em> has been diagnosed with <em>two benign brain tumors<\/em>&#8230;..  They now have a procedure called <em><strong>Gamma Knife Surgery<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;.  They&#8217;ve developed this machine that looks similar to an <strong>MRI <\/strong>unit&#8230;..  <em>The patient remains awake through the whole thing<\/em>&#8230;..  First the upper part of the head is numbed and then a helmet-like device is placed over the head and secured with <strong>4 screws <\/strong>that secure it in position, but <em>do not<\/em> penetrate the skull&#8230;.  After that a basic <em><strong>MRI<\/strong><\/em> is performed to determine the exact locations of the <em><strong>tumors<\/strong><\/em> and adjustment of the Kemo beams is set&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>It works just like the <em><strong>Death Star<\/strong><\/em> beam weapon&#8230;..  Small <em>Gamma beams<\/em> penetrate the skull and tissue in a 360 degree circle&#8230;  Each one is not strong enough to cause damage to the skull or tissue&#8230;..  They all meet at the tumor and combined are strong enough to eliminate the <strong>tumor<\/strong>, just like the <em><strong>Death Star Beams<\/strong><\/em> all combined to make one all powerful beam weapon&#8230;..  The patient is removed from the machine, has a slight headache, a little soreness, and goes about their business&#8230;..  <em>Amazing &#8211; no scalpels, no saws, not stitches, no long recovery time!&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our <em><strong>Drummer<\/strong><\/em> is to undergo this procedure on the <em>9th of June<\/em>&#8230;..  If it all goes the way the video shows, he should be up and running the same day!&#8230;&#8230;  <em>Our thoughts and prayers are with him that it will go exactly as the video indicated<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  <em><strong>Brain Surgery by Computer!<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;..  <em>Wonder if they are working on something to replace Rocket Scientists?&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing the advances that have occurred in the Medical field&#8230;.. Our drummer has been diagnosed with two benign brain tumors&#8230;.. They now have a procedure called Gamma Knife Surgery&#8230;. They&#8217;ve developed this machine that looks similar to an MRI unit&#8230;.. The patient remains awake through the whole thing&#8230;.. First the upper part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,26,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}