# OnCo record litt-systems (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/litt-systems/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "litt-systems" ;
  schema:name "Laser interstitial thermal therapy systems (NeuroBlate, Visualase)"@en ;
  schema:description "Two commercial systems thread a laser fibre through a hole the width of a pencil into a brain tumour and cook it while the surgeon watches the temperature on live MRI. They reach tumours too deep or too risky to remove with open surgery."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/litt-systems/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.monteris.com/>, <https://www.medtronic.com/en-us/healthcare-professionals/products/neurological/laser-ablation/visualase.html>, <https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyz141> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:tag "machines-wave2" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/technologies/radiosurgery-srs/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/transcranial-focused-ultrasound-systems/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/photodynamic-therapy-lasers/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/brain-metastases/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/brain-tumours/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/paediatric-low-grade-glioma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/litt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/intraoperative-mri-ct/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/thermal-ablation/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/monteris-medical/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/medtronic/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/biolitec/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/radiation-necrosis/> .