Imaging of pain: Recent developments

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 583-589

  Iadarola, Michael J ^a,c   Coghill, Robert C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOLIGAND;

BRAIN; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033395061     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-199910000-00016     Document Type: Review

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