Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1342-1351 , December 2008

Optimizing the mapping of finger areas in primary somatosensory cortex using functional MRI

  • Andreas Weibull

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Anders Björkman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hand Surgery, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
    • ,
  • Henrik Hall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
    • ,
  • Birgitta Rosén

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hand Surgery, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
    • ,
  • Göran Lundborg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hand Surgery, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
    • ,
  • Jonas Svensson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden

Received 19 November 2007 ,Revised 15 April 2008 ,Accepted 19 April 2008.

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PII: S0730-725X(08)00139-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.04.007

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 1342-1351 , December 2008

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