Performing brain surgery without a scalpel - Hyunsoo Joshua No
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Every year, tens of thousands of people have brain surgery without a single incision: there’s no scalpel, no operating table, and the patient loses no blood. Instead, this procedure uses a machine that emits invisible beams of light at a precise target inside the brain. So how exactly does this treatment work? And what does it do to the tumors it targets? Hyunsoo No explains radiosurgery.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Hyunsoo Joshua No
- Director Luísa Holanda
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist Luísa Holanda
- Animator Maurício Canterle, Felipe Urbanetto
- Compositor Gabriel Maia
- Art Director Luísa Holanda
- Sound Designer Gabriel Maia
- Music Gabriel Maia
- Hype Executive Producer Gabriel Garcia
- Hype Line Producer Taíla Soliman
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma