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Available online /content/13/4/R106 Research Open Access Vol 13 No 4 Reliability issues in human brain temperature measurement Charmaine Childs1 and Graham Machin2 1Brain Injury Research Group, School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, Clinical Sciences Building, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Stott Lane, Salford, M6 8HD, UK 2Head of Temperature Standards, Temperature Group, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, UK Corresponding author: Charmaine Childs, charmaine.childs@manchester.ac.uk Received: 9 Mar 2009 Revisions requested: 9 Apr 2009 Revisions received: 28 Apr 2009 Accepted: 2 Jul 2009 Published: 2 Jul 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:R106 (doi:10.1186/cc7943) This article is online at: /content/13/4/R106 ? 2009 Childs and Machin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The influence of brain temperature on clinical after severe brain trauma is currently poorly understood. When brain temperature is measured directly, different values between the inside and outside of the head can occur. It is not yet clear if these differences are real or due to measurement error. brain type 1, brain type 2 and body type sensor, respectively. Repeat calibrations the following day confirmed that these results were within the calculated uncertainties. The results of the immersion tests revealed that the reading of the body type sensor was sensitive to position, with differences in temperature of -0.5°C to -1.4°C observed on withdrawing the thermometer from the base of the isothermal environment by 4 cm and 8 cm, respectively. Taking into account all the factors tested during the calibration experiments, the measurement unc