Changing body temperature affects the T2* signal in the rat brain and reveals hypothalamic activity

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1006-1012

  Vanhoutte, Greetje ^a   Verhoye, M ^a   Van Der Linden, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain; fMRI; Preoptic area; Susceptibility; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICROCIRCULATION; RATS;

AUTONOMOUS NERVOUS SYSTEMS; BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; FMRI; PREOPTIC AREA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED EFFECTS; THERMOREGULATION;

BRAIN;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; RAT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 33646453466     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20861     Document Type: Article

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