Cerebral blood flow response to functional activation

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-14

  Paulson, Olaf B ^a,b,c   Hasselbalch, Steen G ^a,c   Rostrup, Egill ^b,c   Knudsen, Gitte Moos ^a,c   Pelligrino, Dale ^d  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD (blood oxygenation level dependent); CBF (cerebral blood flow); FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging); Glucose brain metabolism; Neurovascular coupling; Oxidative brain metabolism

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; METABOLIC REGULATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CAPILLARIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 73949150782     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2009.188     Document Type: Review

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