Thermode for deep focal cooling.
A cooling thermode is described that can be used to reversibly lesion deep structures with minimal penetration damage. Construction, associated equipment, and use of this thermode are simpler and less expensive, and it can be made smaller in size, than previously described thermodes. The user has a choice of a simple, inexpensive control arrangement that is somewhat more complicated to use, or a more expensive control system that is simpler to use. The diameter of this thermode can be at least as small as 0.3 mm, which is smaller than any previously described thermode. The cooling agent, Co2, is used in such small quantities that toxicity is no problem.
Simpson
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Showa University Medical School, Second Department of Physiology, Tokyo, Japan.
Onimaru
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Homma
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D000818:Animals; D003080:Cold Temperature; D004867:Equipment Design; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation*