Effects of visual contrast on visual evoked potentials and Doppler signal

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3353-3358

  Zaletel, Marjan ^a   Strucl, Martin ^b   Pogacnik, Tomaz ^a   Zvan, Bojana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Institute of Physiology   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Neurovascular coupling; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL CONTRAST; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3042795875     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03448.x     Document Type: Article

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