Functional exploration of the human spinal cord during voluntary movement and somatosensory stimulation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1216-1224

  Summers, Paul E ^a   Iannetti, Gian Domenico ^b   Porro, Carlo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI; Human; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEOXYGLUCOSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956873090     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.05.001     Document Type: Review

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