Variability of BOLD response evoked by foot vibrotactile stimulation: Influence of vibration amplitude and stimulus waveform

NeuroImage

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 504-510

  Siedentopf, C M ^a   Heubach, K ^a,b   Ischebeck, A ^a   Gallasch, E ^c   Fend, M ^c   Mottaghy, F M ^d   Koppelstaetter, F ^a   Haala, I A ^a   Krause, B J ^e   Felber, S ^a   Gerstenbrand, F ^f   Golaszewski, S M ^a,g  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b St Nepomuk Hospital   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^g PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; FMRI; Sensorimotor cortex; Vibration amplitude; Vibrotactile stimulation of the foot

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVALUATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOOT; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MAGNET; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRECENTRAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL TRANSVERSE GYRUS; VIBRATION SENSE; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FOOT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 44149095468     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.049     Document Type: Article

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