First Use of New Thermal Therapy System for Brain Tumors

As part of a First-in-Man Phase 1 clinical trial, Gene 
Barnett, MD, Neurological Institute and Taussig Cancer 
Institute, used a new minimally invasive thermal system (AutoLITT™ Thermal Therapy) to destroy tumor tissue in
the brain. In this procedure the patient is placed in a modified MRI scanner, enabling the operator to guide a laser-tipped probe to the tumor site while visualizing the brain and 
tumor temperature in real time. Carefully applied thermal pulses “cook” and destroy the tumor tissue.