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A Simple Dewar/Cryostat for Thermally Equilibrating Samples at Known Temperatures for Accurate Cryogenic Luminescence Measurements
Published on: July 19, 2016
Abstract:
The spread of cooling from the tip of a cryoprobe placed in the ventral posterior lateral nucleus of the thalamus in 10 cats was determined. A 20 degrees C isotherm was described as having a diameter of 4 mm and extending 2 mm below the tip of the cryoprobe and tapering up along the shaft of the cryoprobe for a distance of 2 mm, when the cryoprobe tip temperature was maintained at 3 degrees C.
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