The software redesign effort gives significant increases in execution speed. The time to calculate one of its segmentation algorithms decreased from 15 minutes to 3 minutes. The performance of the Sun HPC server increases linearly with each additional processor for nearly all of its modified programs. Sun's thread library and Sun TM WorkShop TM software development environment are also valuable tools which are used to help extract top application performance. Guiding brain surgery in real time.
Surgeons commonly acquire three-dimensional MRIs before operating on brain tumors.
These images help orient the surgeon for what they will encounter during the surgery. A few hospitals use MRIs to guide them during operations on brain tumors and similar procedures. Normally the surgeons start with the patient lying on a standard operating table, and they move the patient physically into the MRI scanner whenever the surgeon wants a new scan. The operation halts during scanning and then continues after returning the patient to the operating table and once the MRI is available. This is both time-consuming and a physical burden on the patient.