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1. Animal Models of Traumatic Brain Injury
Fredrik Clausen
2. Experimental Radiosurgery in Animal Models Ajay Niranjan, Wendy Fellows-Mayle, Douglas Kondziolka, and L. Dade Lunsford
3. Stereotactic Surgery in Rats Jaroslaw Maciaczyk, Ulf D. Kahlert, Máté Döbrössy, and Guido Nikkhah
4. Rat Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) Occlusion Models Which Involve a Frontotemporal Craniectomy Hideaki Imai, Nobuhito Saito, and I Mhairi Macrae
5. Inferior Colliculus Approach in a Rat Dennis T.T. Plachta
6. Why Robots Entered Neurosurgery
Jason W. Motkoski and Garnette R. Sutherland
7. Impact Model of Spinal Cord Injury
Dorothée Cantinieaux, Rachelle Franzen, and Jean Schoenen
8. Acute Clip Contusion Compression Model of SCI
Jared T. Wilcox and Michael G. Fehlings
9. Microsurgical Approach to Spinal Canal in Rats
Mortimer Gierthmuehlen and Jan Kaminsky
10. Stereotaxic Injection into the Rat Spinal Cord
Charla C. Engels and Piotr Walczak
11. Surgical Access to Cisterna Magna Using Concorde-Like Position for Cell Transplantation in Mice and CNS Dissection within Intact Dura for Evaluation of Cell Distribution
Miroslaw Janowski
12. Animal Models for Experimental Neurosurgery of Peripheral and Cranial Nerves
Joachim Oertel, Christoph A. Tschan, and Doerther Keiner
13. Surgery of the Brain and Spinal Cord in a Porcine Model
Jan Regelsberger
14. Real-Time Convection Delivery of Therapeutics to the Primate Brain
Dali Yin, Massimo S. Fiandaca, John Forsayeth, and Krystof S. Bankiewicz
15. Focal Cerebral Ischemia by Permanent Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Sheep - Surgical Technique, Clinical Imaging, and Histopathological Results
Björn Nitzsche, Henryk Barthel, Donald Lobsien, Johannes Boltze, Vilia Zeisig, and Antje Y. Dreyer
16. A Non-Human Primate Model of Delayed Cerebral Vasospasm after Aneurismal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Ryszard M. Pluta, John Bacher, Boris Skopets, and Victoria Hoffmann
