Article
Successive depth variations in microvascular distribution of rat somatosensory cortex.
Brain research - 2 Jan 2004
Masamoto Kazuto, Kurachi Takayoshi, Takizawa Naosada, Kobayashi Hirosuke, Tanishita Kazuo
Abstract excerpt
Although hemodynamic-based functional brain imaging techniques are powerful tools to explore the brain functions noninvasively, hemodynamic-based signal is strongly affected by spatial configuration of microvessels. Understanding the quantitative relations between microvascular structure and functional activity is therefore significant to make a valid signal interpretation for the imaging techniques. In the...
Topics
- Animals
- Cerebral Arteries
- Cerebrovascular Circulation
- Fluorescent Dyes
- Genetic Variation
- Male
- Methacrylates
- Microcirculation
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Oxygen Consumption
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Somatosensory Cortex
