and Corina Kesler, a facilitator 
with IGR and a researcher with 
the University’s International 
Institute, led the dialogue.

Vanderbeck said he intended 

the conversation to be in 
keeping with the Valentine’s 
season, in relation to love, but 
also to provoke reflection on 
the subject of open discussions 
about important issues.

“When 
you’re 
with 

loved ones, people you care 
about, how do you go about 
having 
these 
contentious 

conversations?” he said.

He said the dialogue was a 

part of IGR’s ongoing efforts 
to 
encourage 
openness 
in 

relationships.

“A lot of what IGR is about is 

learning how to dialogue, and 
at IGR we talk about dialogue 
being this third way between 
open discussion and debate,” 
he said. “Dialogue is a focused 
way of having a conversation.”

Attendees broke out into 

smaller 
groups 
based 
on 

which category of loved ones 
they found having dialogues 
about identity most difficult. 
The 
choices 
were 
family, 

classmates/coworkers, 
significant others and friends. 
The talk also allowed the entire 
group to come together and 
share their ideas.

Education graduate student 

Chelsea Noble said she liked 
how they could break into 
groups and get to know other 
participants.

“I really appreciated that 

they kept us moving between 
circles so you got to hear from 
different folks, but there was 
also some big group debrief,” 
Noble said. “It felt dynamic, 
it felt like you could get your 
voice heard in a small group 
but also hear from the big 
group.”

While 
in 
these 
smaller 

groups, Vanderbeck and Kesler 
asked participants to discuss 
why they felt dialogue was 
challenging with this type 
of loved one and also offered 
suggestions for possibly easing 
this difficulty. They brought 
up different topics of dialogue 

such as gender, race and sexual 
identity and allowed people 
to switch groups with every 
change of topic.

Kesler said the willingness 

of various people to share 
experiences and thoughts made 
this discussion possible.

“I think the presence of so 

many participants interested 
in learning made our role much 
easier,” she said. “If this was a 
success, it had very little to do 
with us, to be sure.”

Education graduate student 

LaQwana Dockery, a graduate 
intern with IGR, said she really 
appreciated the camaraderie 
she felt with other audience 
members.

“It was nice to be around 

people who share the same 
feelings about certain issues 
and topics when it comes to 
important people in our lives 
and when we want to talk 
about different issues that are 
important to us,” she said. “But 
also we don’t want to damage 
the relationships we have with 
certain people that we really 
care about,”

Dockery said the dialogue 
helped her see that there were 
different ways to express her 
opinions on social justice.

“There’s a lot of different 

ways that you can intervene 
and 
that 
necessarily 

doesn’t have to be directly 
confronting someone,” she 
said. “I think people who are 
really involved and passionate 
about social justice put the 
weight on their shoulders that 
we need to tackle every single 
issue at that moment, but 
that might not necessarily be 
the case sometimes. It might 
be important to change the 
subject or pull someone aside 
and talk to them the next 
day.”

2-News

Seven 
alleged 
ISIS 

members were detained 
in 
Yekaterinburg, 

Russia, and charged for a 

bombing massacre in Moscow, 
St. 
Petersburg, 
according 

to CNN. This has been 
anticipated since November, 
when 
ISIS 
threatened 
to 

attack Russia. “very soon.”

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Wellness Advocacy Keen-
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BrightMatter 

devices will allow 
higher microscopic 
detail for doctors

By SOPHIE SHERRY

For the Daily

The University of Michigan 

Health System has recently 
acquired Synaptive Medical’s 
BrightMatter 
technology, 

a device that fuses high-
definition 
intraoperative 

visualization 
and 
surgical 

guidance to transform the 
way surgeons operate.

Currently, when surgeons 

want 
to 
view 
something 

in high detail they use a 
microscopic 
eyepiece. 
The 

field of view provided by 
this microscope is incredibly 
small 
and 
requires 
the 

surgeon to frequently move 
around while working. The 
surgeon is able to project 
two-dimensional images onto 
a screen for others in the 
operating room to see, but 
the surgeon her or himself 
cannot see that image. UMHS 
neurosurgeon Oren Sagher 
said the new device aims to 
change that.

“The BrightMatter device 

parts from that,” Sagher said. 
“The surgeon is now seeing 
the same high detail over a 
larger area and is able to see 
it on a large screen in front of 
them rather than having to 
look into a microscope.”

The device also allows 

all those in the operating 
room to see exactly what the 
surgeon is seeing. Sagher said 
he believes this will greatly 
improve communication and 
teaching capabilities in the 
operating room.

“Now 
everybody 
knows 

exactly what the surgeon 
is seeing and doing and the 
scrub can anticipate what 

the surgeon needs and (this) 
really greatly improves the 
workflow in the operating 
room,” he said.

What sets this device apart 

from 
current 
technology 

is that it combines more 
advanced 
visualization 

technology 
with 
surgical 

guidance, 
Sagher 
added. 

Currently, 
surgeons 
take 

digital images of a patient’s 
brain, 
for 
example, 
and 

reconstruct them into three-
dimensions. A computer in 
the 
operating 
room 
then 

guides the surgeon’s hand 
where to go according to this 
three-dimensional 
model. 

This technology has existed 
for more than 20 years but 
lives completely separately 
from the microscope used 
previously — this new device 
will combine them.

“If a surgeon was operating 

under a microscope, they 
cannot 
use 
the 
guidance 

system very easily, in fact 
sometimes not at all,” Sagher 
said. “With the Synaptive 
device, 
BrightMatter, 
not 

only can you do that, but it 
actually is integrated into 
the device. They are actually 
able to guide your view and 
your path exactly the way 
you have planned it based 
on the patient’s preoperative 
imaging.”

The device itself is a robot. 

The 
visualization 
camera 

hangs above the head of the 
surgeon and slightly in front 
of them in order to not get 
in their way. The surgeon is 
able to give the robot verbal 
commands to change paths 
and trajectories.

“It is just short of the ability 

of the robot to actually do the 
operation,” Sagher said. “It 
essentially allows the surgeon 
to just get to that limit where 
the surgeon is operating but 
being aided by the robot.”

The BrightMatter device 

is currently being used at a 

handful of hospitals across 
the 
country, 
including 

Henry 
Ford 
Hospital 
in 

Detroit. 
Karin 
Muraszko, 

chair of neurosurgery at the 
University, said while the 
BrightMatter device is costly, 
the University thinks it is a 
worthwhile investment.

“It’s a significant outlay 

of funds and a hospital has 
to feel that they have got 
the need for that kind of 
technology,” Muraszko said. 
“We view ourselves, and I 
think appropriately so, as a 
place that leads in cutting 
edge technologies. I think 
that, like everything, it is 
going to require a learning 
curve, but we have invested 
a fair amount of effort and 
time to access its feasible 
and usefulness in our own 
practice before we made the 
commitment to bring this 
system to Michigan.”

Both Sagher and Muraszko 

said 
they 
believe 
the 

University 
will 
uniquely 

implement of this technology 
due 
to 
the 
prominent 

brain tumor program the 
University has, as well as how 
they will be able to integrate 
the BrightMatter technology 
with 
a 
visualization 

instrument 
that 
another 

UMHS neurosurgeon, Daniel 
Orringer, 
has 
developed. 

Orringer 
has 
created 
a 

visualization 
instrument 

called 
stimulated 
Raman 

spectroscopy, which allows 
for the visualization of actual 
cells. This offers the potential 
to be able to differentiate 
between 
tumor 
cells 
and 

normal cells in the operating 
room.

“We 
can 
take 
a 
real 

breakthrough 
and 
make 

it 
a 
truly 
monumental 

breakthrough, 
leveraging 

what our in-house talents are 
here with Dr. Orringer’s SRS 
microscope,” Sagher said.

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