Neurosurgery in the realm of 10-9, Part 1: Stardust and nanotechnology in neuroscience

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-19

  Elder, James B ^a   Liu, Charles Y ^a,b   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanomedicine; Nanoneurosurgery; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; DEVICE; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENE TECHNOLOGY; HISTORY; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOANALYSIS; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SURGEON; ANIMAL; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION;

ANIMALS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 41749106721     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000311058.80249.6B     Document Type: Review

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