Pain fMRI in rat cervical spinal cord: An echo planar imaging evaluation of sensitivity of BOLD and blood volume-weighted fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-362

  Zhao, Fuqiang ^a   Williams, Mangay ^a   Meng, Xiangjun ^a   Welsh, Denise C ^a   Grachev, Igor D ^a   Hargreaves, Richard ^a   Williams, Donald S ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood volume weighted; BOLD; Cervical spinal cord; EPI; fMRI; Noxious electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE; OXYGEN; PANCURONIUM BROMIDE; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINAL PAIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VOLUME; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXIDES; PAIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 56349119373     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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