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. 2011 Jul 3;8(8):662-4.
doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1641.

Functional ultrasound imaging of the brain

Emilie Macé  1 , Gabriel Montaldo, Ivan Cohen, Michel Baulac, Mathias Fink, Mickael Tanter
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Functional ultrasound imaging of the brain

Emilie Macé et al. Nat Methods. .

Abstract

We present functional ultrasound (fUS), a method for imaging transient changes in blood volume in the whole brain at better spatiotemporal resolution than with other functional brain imaging modalities. fUS uses plane-wave illumination at high frame rate and can measure blood volumes in smaller vessels than previous ultrasound methods. fUS identifies regions of brain activation and was used to image whisker-evoked cortical and thalamic responses and the propagation of epileptiform seizures in the rat brain.

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