BOLD fMRI investigation of the rat auditory pathway and tonotopic organization

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1205-1211

  Cheung, Matthew M ^a   Lau, Condon ^a   Zhou, Iris Y ^a   Chan, Kevin C ^a,b,c   Cheng, Joe S ^a   Zhang, Jevin W ^a   Ho, Leon C ^a   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Blood oxygenation level dependent functional MRI; Inferior colliculus; Rat; Tonotopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATERAL LEMNISCUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE TRACT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND PRESSURE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TONOTOPY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84862777701     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.087     Document Type: Article

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