Fractal analysis of spontaneous fluctuations of the BOLD signal in rat brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1060-1069

  Herman, Peter ^a,b   Sanganahalli, Basavaraju G ^a,b   Hyder, Fahmeed ^a,b,c   Eke, Andras ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

BOLD signal; Fractality; Frequency domain analysis; Non linear dynamics; Resting state connectivity; Scale free correlation; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE; DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT SIGNAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE PUTAMEN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; LOW FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY FORELIMB AREA; SUBCORTEX; SYNCHRONIZED VASOMOTION; TRAUBE HERING MAYER WAVE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FRACTALS; HEMOGLOBINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80052610233     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.082     Document Type: Article

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