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  • Rand and Malcolm radiolucent surgical head holder

    Descrizione: Rand and Malcolm radiolucent surgical head holder. USA. 1988. This radiolucent surgical head holder stabilized the patient while allowing direct radiographic visualization of the surgical anatomy without compromising view angles or x-ray geometry....
    data di creazione: 1988

  • Talairach rectilinear stereotactic system. France.

    Descrizione: Talairach rectilinear stereotactic system. France 1949. This rectilinear orthogonial instrument consisted of a heavy frame and fixation pins. Two lateral grids for alignment of the x-ray beam were placed at a distance from the frame to reduce...
    data di creazione: 1949

  • Rand-Urban stereotactic arc system. USA.

    Descrizione: Rand-Urban stereotactic arc system. USA. 1956. This stereotactic instrument was designed as an arc system in order to place the patient's head in various positions. It's clinical application of studies on stereotactically implanted electrodes in...
    data di creazione: 1956

  • Wu skull fixed system

    Descrizione: Wu skull fixed system. China. Used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, the instrument was attached to a burr hole in the skull. Angular adjustments allowed the lesion electrode to be introduced into the deep brain structures; x-rays were used...
    data di creazione: undated

  • Todd-Wells arc-focal point system. USA.

    Descrizione: Todd-Wells arc-focal point system. USA. 1965. Built by Edwin M. Todd and Trent H. Wells, Jr.
    data di creazione: 1965

  • Rand Stereotactic Instrument for Yttrium Hypophysectomy

    Descrizione: Rand Stereotactic Instrument for Yttrium Hypophysectomy. Los Angeles: Trent H. Wells of the Mechanical Development Co., 1953. This instrument was used to implant yttrium 90 oxide into the pituitary gland. Probes were introduced by way of the nasal...
    data di creazione: undated

  • Nashold arc system. USA.

    Descrizione: Nashold arc system. USA. 1969. Based on the arc principle, this instrument was unique since it was made specifically to lesion the cerebellar dentate nucleus. Designed by Drs. Blaine Nashold and Graham Slaughter and John Harrison, an Australian...
    data di creazione: 1969

  • Heimberger arc system. USA.

    Descrizione: Heimberger arc system. USA. 1972. This arc system was made in 1972 by Dr. Robert Heimberger, professor of Neurosurgery at Indiana University Medical Center. The instrument was unique in that the patient was placed in the instrument in the lateral...
    data di creazione: 1972

  • Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953.

    Descrizione: Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953. Dr. Claude Bertrand, the French Canadian neurosurgeon, introduced his pneumotaxic guide in 1953 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It was based on the orthogonal system combined with rectolinear...
    data di creazione: 1953

  • Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956.

    Descrizione: Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956. The basic design consisted of a device mounted on a burr hole in the skull. It allowed guidance at various angular adjustments. By passing the needle through the trephine after attaching the socket, AP...
    data di creazione: 1956