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  • Rand Stereotactic Instrument for Yttrium Hypophysectomy

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Wu skull fixed system

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Todd-Wells stereotactic stand

    Description:
    Todd-Wells stereotactic stand. Southgate, CA: Made for Codman and Shurtleff by Trent H. Wells, Jr., Mechanical Development Co. [n.d.]
    Date:
    undated

  • Enema kit

    Description:
    Ivory-tip brass enema syringe. 19th century. No key. Wooden box - velvet lined.
    Date:
    19th Century

  • Talairach rectilinear stereotactic system. France.

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1949

  • Narabayashi arc system. Japan.

    Description:
    Narabayashi arc system. Japan. 1950. The original instruments were built in 1950. The current model on display was used to treat Parkinson's disease.
    Date:
    1950

  • Reichert arc system. Germany.

    Description:
    Reichert arc system. Germany. 1951. This arc-radius system used Cartesian and polar coordinates. The instrument's large base allowed the brain target to be approached from any point on the skull. Modified in 1965 by Reichert and Dr. Mundinger, the...
    Date:
    1951

  • Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953.

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1953

  • Rand-Urban stereotactic arc system. USA.

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1956

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

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1956

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

    Description:
    Todd-Wells arc-focal point system. USA. 1965. Built by Edwin M. Todd and Trent H. Wells, Jr.
    Date:
    1965

  • Nashold arc system. USA.

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1969

  • Grass stimulator system

    Description:
    Grass stimulator system. Quincy, MA: Grass Medical Instruments, 1970. 5 instruments. Built by Grass Medical Instruments of Quincy, Massachusetts, these instruments were used to stimulate the brain and spinal cord.
    Date:
    1970

  • Avery Labs stimulator system

    Description:
    Avery Labs stimulator system. Farmingdale, NY. 1970. 6 instruments: 2 Brain and spinal cord stimulators. 1cutaneous, 1 transcutaneous and 2 neuro. The Avery Electrical Brain and Spinal Cord Stimulator was built by Avery Labs in Farmingdale, New...
    Date:
    1970

  • Radionics radio frequency type lesion generator

    Description:
    Radionics radio frequency type lesion generator. Burlington, MA: Radionics, Inc., 1970. Built by Radionics, Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, this instrument was used for making deep brain and spinal cord lesions.
    Date:
    1970

  • Tandberg tape recorder. Sweden.

    Description:
    Tandberg tape recorder. Sweden. 1970. This instrument was used to record brain wave activity on tape.
    Date:
    1970

  • W-P Instruments Stimulator system

    Description:
    W-P Instruments Stimulator system. New Haven, CT: 1970. Built by W-P Instruments of New Haven, Connecticut, this instrument was used to stimulate the brain and spinal cord.
    Date:
    1970

  • Heimberger arc system. USA.

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1972

  • MR/CT Compatible arc-phantom target system

    Description:
    MR/CT Compatible arc-phantom target system. Burlington, MA: Radionics. 1987. Built by Eric R. Cosman, PhD, Theodore S. Roberts, MD & Trent H. Wells, Jr.. Known as the CRW System.
    Date:
    1987

  • Rand and Malcolm radiolucent surgical head holder

    Description:
    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....
    Date:
    1988