The safest electrode trajectory for deep brain stimulation of the human nucleus accumbens: A stereotactic anatomic study

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-20

  Mavridis, I ^a,b   Anagnostopoulou, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

anterior limb of the internal capsule; deep brain stimulation; electrode trajectory; nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CADAVER DONOR; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE TRAJECTORY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PUTAMEN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEREOTAXIC ANATOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79955097329     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: 14392291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1270516     Document Type: Article

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