Visualizing and quantifying evoked cortical activity assessed with intrinsic signal imaging

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-173

  Chen Bee, Cynthia H ^a   Polley, Daniel B ^a   Brett Green, Barbara ^a   Prakash, Neal ^a   Kwon, Michael C ^a   Frostig, Ron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel; Intrinsic signal; Optical imaging; Rat somatosensory cortex; Vibrissa; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; REFLECTOMETRY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEUROSCIENCES; OPTICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0034656051     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00180-1     Document Type: Article

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