Somatotopic arrangement of thermal sensory regions in the healthy human spinal cord determined by means of spinal cord functional MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 923-931

  Stroman, Patrick W ^a,b   Bosma, Rachael L ^a   Tsyben, Anastasia ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

connectivity; general linear model; magnetic resonance imaging; sensory; signal enhancement by extravascular water protons

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONNECTIVITY; CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; GENERAL LINEAR MODEL ANALYSIS; GENERAL LINEAR MODELING; LINEARLY INDEPENDENTS; SENSORY; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT;

DOSIMETRY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; DERMATOME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84865517554     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23292     Document Type: Article

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