A device for cooling localized regions of human cerebral cortex. Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 604-608

  Bakken, Hans E ^a   Kawasaki, Hiroto ^a   Oya, Hiroyuki ^a   Greenlee, Jeremy D W ^a   Howard III, Matthew A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain cooling probe; Functional mapping; Synapse; Temperature

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COOLING; DEVICE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; PIA MATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNAPSE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0041419535     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2003.99.3.0604     Document Type: Article

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