Real-time monitoring of laser diskectomies with a superconducting, open- configuration MR system

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 863-867

  Schoenenberger, Andreas W ^a   Steiner, Paul ^a   Debatin, Jörg F ^a   Zweifel, Karl ^a   Erhart, Peter ^a   Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a   Hodler, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TISSUE REACTION;

EID: 0030836572     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.169.3.9275913     Document Type: Article

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