Nevertheless, recording the EEG simultaneously with fMRI remains an extremely delicate operation.
Interestingly, in ocular surgery, a highly delicate and individual medical specialization, some basic handling steps have not changed in decades.
Social change is a highly delicate matter, and efforts there seem likely to meet continuing resistance.
Given that this is not "patient data" but "patients' data", handling large personal private datasets is a highly delicate issue.
Although locating a tortoise's "intromittent organ" (penis) is a highly skilled, indeed delicate, operation, at least it isn't dangerous.
Watching Woods work today was like watching a top surgeon performing a delicate operation.
"It's a very delicate operation," Mr Eibenschutz said.
"It's a very delicate operation," Mr. Hughes said in jest.
In Germany, where workers are represented on company boards and "consensus" is a cardinal social principle, it can be a particularly delicate operation.
"It was a very delicate operation, bringing it up inch by inch.
"It was a really delicate operation and so much was at stake, particularly as we had never been involved in anything like this before.
