Dear all, I'm new to this list - and was really happy to find it. Does anybody have any advice on how to do rat brain extraction in such a way that the air would not get into the ventricles? We are doing MRI on the ex vivo rat brains, and the air which gets in causes nasty artifacts. I am looking for consistent way to avoid the bubbles, cause . The way we are extracting the brain now is to isolate the head, peel the skull from the top and from the sides, crush the nasal bone, expose the bulbs, remove dura, cut the nerves, lift the brain.. I was never concerned with this problem until I started doing MRI - and here it turns out to be really important.
I was wondering if I should just leave the dura in place during extraction, for example, would that work? Thank you in advance! Katya -- Ekaterina Vinnik, MD, PhD Behavioural neuroscience lab, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal +351918951392 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
