Mapping cortical representations of the rodent forepaw and hindpaw with BOLD fMRI reveals two spatial boundaries

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 526-538

  Goloshevsky, Artem G ^a,b   Wu, Carolyn W H ^a,c   Dodd, Stephen J ^a   Koretsky, Alan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b BRUKER BIOSPIN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

BOLD; CBV; Cortical representation; Electrical stimulation; FMRI; Histochemical staining; Induced cortical plasticity; Peripheral denervation; Rat

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREFOOT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HINDLIMB; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79958724534     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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