Outer skull landmark-based coordinates for measurement of cerebral blood flow and intracranial pressure in rabbits

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 322-326

  Marbacher, Serge ^a,b   Milavec, Helena ^a,b   Neuschmelting, Volker ^c   Andereggen, Lukas ^a   Erhardt, Salome ^a,b   Fandino, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Intracranial pressure; Neuromonitoring; Rabbit; Skull landmark; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMONITORING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKULL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OLFACTORY BULB; RABBITS; SKULL; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 80053199734     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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