Fig. 5.1 Head positioning incorporates four movements: anteroposterior flexion to expose the suboccipital region; contralateral flexion to bring the vertex away from the shoulder; contralateral rotation to make the suboccipital…
Fig. 12.1 Axial (a), coronal (b), and sagittal (c) CT scans of the brain demonstrating a hypodense lesion located at the left CPA angle. Note the supratentorial extension of the…
Fig. 4.1 The skin incision is made starting from the zygomatic arch approximately 1 cm anterior to the tragus and extending superiorly just behind the hairline. The incision curves posteriorly…
Fig. 7.1 Case illustration of removal of petroclival tumor via the retrosigmoid approach. (a, b) Coronal T1-weighted MRI with gadolinium demonstrating large petrotentorial tumor. (c) Axial T1-weighted MRI with gadolinium…
Fig. 6.1 Recurrent chordoma in a 61-year-old male patient. Patient underwent an upper and middle transclival EEA to remove the tumor (red arrows). A small dural invasion and opening into…
(2.1) For the analysis of fMRI data, the given data Y i at time index i is (2.2) where x i1 ,…, x ik is the combined effect of k…
Fig. 1.1 Conceptual relationship between the acupoint, organ, and brain. The acupuncture effect can be evaluated via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). TCM traditional Chinese medicine 1.2 Principles of fMRI…
Fig. 4.1 Electrode positions and labels according to the 10–20 electrode placement system. Black circles indicate positions of the original 10–20 system, gray circles indicate additional positions introduced in the…
Fig. 3.1 The topological map of non-drug users (a) and chronic heroin users (b) (Reprint with permission from Liu et al. 2009). The colors represented medial temporal (yellow), subcortical (purple),…
Fig. 5.1 Spatial maps of 48 intrinsic connectivity networks (a) and the stationary functional connectivity (similarity S matrix); (b) between them in healthy control subjects (HC) and schizophrenia patients (SZ)…
