Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 953-958 , October 2008

BOLD fMRI mapping of brain responses to nociceptive stimuli in rats under ketamine anesthesia

  • Yen-Yu I. Shih

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Chen Chang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 2789 9027; fax: +886 2 2788 7641.
    • ,
  • Jyh-Cheng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Fu-Shan Jaw

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 2 3366 5266; fax: +886 2 2394 0049.

Received 31 May 2007 ,Revised 5 December 2007 ,Accepted 12 December 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.12.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 953-958 , October 2008

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