Using cutting-edge technology and research, a hospital in Delhi unveiled a ‘brain mapping device’, claiming it to be the nation's first of its type.

With the development of such individualized brain mapping, brain tumor treatment and other procedures have become significantly safer, and due to the accuracy, damage to crucial brain areas can be prevented, it was stated.

"In a first-of-its-kind technology to be launched, with the combination of decades of research with cutting edge technology, IBS Hospitals today launched the first brain mapping device connectomics/ quicktome in the country," the private hospital claims.

From a typical, non-invasive MRI scan, Quicktome employs powerful algorithms to analyze millions of data points and create a brain map that is unique to each patient. The maps, which medical professionals can access on their computers, provide anatomical detail ordinarily unavailable in a clinical context, enabling surgeons to incorporate cutting-edge brain network data into neurosurgical planning.

This is an example of a medical science advance in preoperative imaging that makes use of cutting-edge algorithms and cloud computing. Precision neurosurgery may become a viable procedure thanks to this new technology.

These brain network biomarkers can accurately highlight the regions of an anomaly and instantly provide quantitative data to assist in decision-making for further course of treatment, so a mental illness need not necessarily be a vague illness that should be diagnosed through patient history and interview.

According to its website, IBS Hospitals, which were founded in 2011, specialize in sophisticated neurology, neurosurgery, spine surgery, and joint replacement procedures.

"This pathbreaking technology is paving way to not only potentially treat a plethora of ailments pertaining to the brain functioning, pre and post operatively, but also to retrieve to its normal functioning”, says Dr Sachin Kandhari, neurosurgeon and managing director, IBS Hospitals.