Image-guided transcranial focused ultrasound stimulates human primary somatosensory cortex

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lee, Wonhye ^a,c   Kim, Hyungmin ^a,b   Jung, Yujin ^a   Song, In Uk ^a   Chung, Yong An ^a   Yoo, Seung Schik ^a,c  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924326389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08743     Document Type: Article

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