Neuronal units linked to microvascular modules in cerebral cortex: Response elements for imaging the brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 647-660

  Woolsey, Thomas A ^a   Rovainen, Carl M ^a   Cox, Stephanie B ^a   Henegar, Martin H ^a   Liang, Griffith E ^a   Liu, Daqian ^a   Moskalenko, Yuri E ^b   Sui, Jing ^a   Wei, Ling ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; HEART OUTPUT; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0029846966     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/6.5.647     Document Type: Review

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