Functional reorganization in rat somatosensory cortex assessed by fMRI: Elastic image registration based on structural landmarks in fMRI images and application to spinal cord injured rats

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1345-1354

  Sydekum, Esther ^a   Baltes, Christof ^a   Ghosh, Arko ^b   Mueggler, Thomas ^a   Schwab, Martin E ^b   Rudin, Markus ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FOREFOOT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 58149291692     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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