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TUCSON - Breakthrough technology has doctors buzzing around the country and Tucson is at the center of it all. It is called the Brain Lab iCT and it is the first in North America, born at the Carondelet Neurological Institute at Saint Joseph's Hospital.

Millie Allin doesn't know much about the Brain Lab, and frankly she doesn't want to.

"All I want is the results, the end result," Allin said. "Maybe it's the less I know, the better I am."

As Allin heads in for spinal surgery, she is accompanied by just about everything a girl could need: a good husband, a fresh manicure and a surgeon she adores.

"I know he's like the top man as far as I'm concerned," Allin said. "I wouldn't dream of going to anyone else, I'll put it that way."

Her surgeon is Dr. Eric Sipos, and beyond his years of practice, he's now got a state of the art tool on his side to help patients like Allin.

"This allows us to take it one notch further in terms of precision and safety," Dr. Sipos said.

This is how the brain lab works: While Dr. Sipos performs Allin's surgery, he can stop, sliding doors open, and a cat scanner comes out of what is called a garage. When the scan is done, the machine goes back in and can even be used in the operating room on the other side of the wall. In the mean time, Dr. Sipos can see instant results, and it is making other doctors around the globe green with envy.

"We've had representatives from as far away as hospitals in Australia come to tour our facility and learn from what we've done," Dr. Sipos said.

"We are in the processing technology which I think will significantly benefit patients," Dr. Sumeer Lal, a neurosurgeon visiting the Carondelet Neurological Institute from Self Regional Hospital in South Carolina, said.

When doctors get their results instantly, it virtually eliminates for patients to go back into the operating room.

"Just that instant feedback to know that I've done a good job and it's perfect. And I can close the surgery knowing that everything's fine," Dr. Sipos said.

Several hospitals have now created their own Brain Lab iCT after seeing the one at Carondelet's Neurological Institute.