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Continuous pre and/or postoperative monitoring of intracranial pressure has long ceased to be a matter of merely academic interest in Neurosurgery [1,2]. Telemetry appears to offer definite advantages as compared to monitoring with catheters and wires. Nevertheless, the application of telemetry to the continuous measurement of pressures within the skull has met with serious obstacles, among which the most important are:
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problems caused by miniaturization,
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difficulty in obtaining suitable energy sources and sufficiently wide transmission ranges,
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stability of the pressure sensor (zero-line, temperature, hysteresis),
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difficulty in obtaining quantitative measurements, and
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possibility of repeated, reliable, in-vivo calibration.
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Brock, M., Diefenthäler, K. (1972). A Modified Equipment for the Continuous Telemetric Monitoring of Epidural or Subdural Pressure. In: Brock, M., Dietz, H. (eds) Intracranial Pressure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65486-2_5
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