Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 380-387 , April 2010

Exploring vision-related acupuncture point specificity with multivoxel pattern analysis

  • Linling Li

      Affiliations

    • Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    • ,
  • Wei Qin

      Affiliations

    • Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    • ,
  • Lijun Bai

      Affiliations

    • Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    • ,
  • Jie Tian

      Affiliations

    • Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O. Box 2728, Beijing 100190, China. Tel.: +86 010 82618465; fax: +86 010 62527995.

Received 9 June 2009 ,Revised 15 September 2009 ,Accepted 27 November 2009.

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PII: S0730-725X(09)00290-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.11.009

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 380-387 , April 2010

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