Isotherm of alcohol-cooled cryoprobe.
The spread of cooling from the tip of a cryoprobe placed in the ventral posterior lateral nucleus of the thalamus in 10 cats was determined. A 20 degrees C isotherm was described as having a diameter of 4 mm and extending 2 mm below the tip of the cryoprobe and tapering up along the shaft of the cryoprobe for a distance of 2 mm, when the cryoprobe tip temperature was maintained at 3 degrees C.
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D002415:Cats; D003080:Cold Temperature; D000432:Methanol; D009407:Nerve Block; D009435:Synaptic Transmission; D013787:Thalamic Nuclei / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*
D000432:Methanol