© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014Ahmed Ammar and Mark Bernstein (eds.)Neurosurgical Ethics in Practice: Value-based Medicine10.1007/978-3-642-54980-9_5 5. Informed Consent Patrick McDonald1 (1) Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg Children’s Hospital, University…
Fig. 28.1 Diffusion of water molecules. (a) Isotropic diffusion is represented as a sphere. (b) Anisotropic diffusion is approximated by a diffusion ellipsoid. The diffusion ellipsoid is calculated from an…
Fig. 18.1 Change with time in the ICAM-1 mRNA/G3PDH mRNA ratio after compression injury. The relative amount of ICAM-1 mRNA was quantified by densitometry and expressed as the lCAM-1/G3PDH ratio….
Fig. 15.1 KS and CS expression after spinal cord injury. (a) Expression profile of 5D4-reactive KS in wild-type mice after spinal cord injury. Scale bar, 100 μm. (b–d) KS was…
Fig. 26.1 The structure of high molecular weight neurofilament. NF-H is the longest form of neurofilament, having 150 kd as its molecular weight. Near its C-terminus NF-H contains more than…
Fig. 31.1 Excitatory synaptic transmission in the dorsal horn. When an impulse is transmitted to central terminals of afferent fibers, excitatory neurotransmitters are released. Glutamate and substance P act at…
Using the Advantage Workstation (GE Healthcare), the same slices of cervical 3D-MRI using 3.0 Tesla (T) Signa system and 18F-FDG PET images were fused automatically. On fusion images, the maximal…
Target Spatial resolution (mm) Temporal resolution (S) EEG/MEG Neuronal current 10 0.001 fMRI Regional changes in blood flow 4–5 1–10 PET Oxygen consumption, glucose metabolism etc. 5–10 30–1,000 SPECT…
Fig. 12.1 Photographs of Japanese small game fowl in the control (a) and the operated group (b).Roentgenograms of its cervical lateral views in the control (c) and operated group (d)….
Fig. 8.1 (a) Transverse slab of the C5 vertebra and the spinal cord with the screw cut 3 mm in thickness, showing the deformation of the spinal cord by the…
