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Impedance Recording in Central Nervous System Surgery

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

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This chapter will first describe electrical bioimpedance and its relevance to neurosurgeons, and provide a brief historical review. Current and near-future techniques for central nervous system (CNS) tissue identification (e.g., brain vs. tumor) are then considered. A brief review of impedance ‘‘imaging’’ – electrical impedance tomography EIT) – is then presented, given EIT may assume a significant clinical role in the future. The final section presents the new field of charge transfer at the neuronal/subneuronal level, made possible in the past decade by advances in nanoelectrode techniques, and contrasts such a neural-electrical interface (NEI) with the traditional macro- and micro-electrodes for neuromodulation or deep brain stimulation (DBS).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

  2. Houston Stereotactic Concepts, Inc., 2260 West Holcombe Boulevard Suite 309, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Philip L. Gildenberg

  3. University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Ronald R. Tasker

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Andrews, R.J., Li, J., Kuhn, S.A., Walter, J., Reichart, R. (2009). Impedance Recording in Central Nervous System Surgery. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_41

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