====== Cooper Stereotactic Device ======

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This [[device]] was designed by Dr. [[Irving Cooper]] to provide the stereotactic direction of his cryoprobe in stereotactic [[thalamotomy]] in patients with movement disorders. 

Professor [[Lauri Laitinen]], one of the [[pioneer]]s of modern [[movement disorder]] neurosurgery, started operating on [[Parkinson]] patients in [[Helsinki]] in [[1963]], using the Cooper [[Stereotactic Device]]. Later, he invented his own frame, which was in use for 20 years in many places in the Nordic countries
((http://www.hus.fi/en/medical-care/medical-services/Neurosurgery/for_professionals/neurosurgical_subspecialities/functional_neurosurgery/Pages/default.aspx)).