Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 1-10 , January 2008

Functional MRI of the cervical spinal cord during noxious and innocuous thermal stimulation in the α-chloralose- and halothane-anesthetized rat

  • Jane Lawrence

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3J7
    • Present address: Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Laboratory, 780 Welch Rd, Suite 208C, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1573, USA.
    • ,
  • Patrick W. Stroman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3J7
    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 2V7
    • ,
  • Krisztina L. Malisza

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3J7
    • National Research Council, Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B 1Y6
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. National Research Council of Canada, MR Research and Development, Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1Y6. Tel.: +1 204 984 6616; fax: +1 204 984 7036.

Received 5 October 2006 ,Revised 30 April 2007 ,Accepted 1 May 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.05.001

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