title: Intracranial electroencephalographic and evoked-potential recording from intravascular guide wires.
abstract: We describe a technique for recording electroencephalographic and evoked-potential information directly from the cerebral hemispheres and brain stem, via an endovascular approach. Recordings were performed with polytef-insulated guide wires in the course of interventional angiographies in 23 patients. All registrations were compared with simultaneous recordings from extracranial electrodes. This preliminary study raises the possibility that this technique may help to explore the electric activity of deep cerebral structures otherwise accessible only by stereotactic puncture or electrode insertion.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Neuroradiologie, Universitätsklinikum, Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stoeter
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dieterle
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Prey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D002533:Cerebral Angiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted