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Calculation of the position of a side-protruding electrode tip in stereotactic brain operations using a stereotactic apparatus with polar coordinates

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The mathematical derivations of the formulae for the position of the side-protruding electrode are given for a stereotactic apparatus with polar coordinates (Riechert-Mundinger system).

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  1. W. Birg Dipl. Phys. (Medical Director of the Department of Stereotactic Neurosurgery and Nuclear Medicine) &  F. Mundinger (Medical Director of the Department of Stereotactic Neurosurgery and Nuclear Medicine)

    Present address: Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, Hugstetter Straße 55, D-7800, Freiburg i. Br., Federal Republic of Germany

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    With the support of the Special Research Division-Brain Research and Physiology of the Senses (SFB 70 E2) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bad Godesberg).

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    Birg, W., Mundinger, F. Calculation of the position of a side-protruding electrode tip in stereotactic brain operations using a stereotactic apparatus with polar coordinates. Acta neurochir 32, 83–87 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01405905

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