Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 995-1003 , September 2010

Comparison of α-chloralose, medetomidine and isoflurane anesthesia for functional connectivity mapping in the rat

  • Kathleen A. Williams

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10012, USA
    • ,
  • Matthew Magnuson

      Affiliations

    • Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    • ,
  • Waqas Majeed

      Affiliations

    • Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    • ,
  • Stephen M. LaConte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 76798, USA
    • ,
  • Scott J. Peltier

      Affiliations

    • Functional MRI Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    • ,
  • Xiaoping Hu

      Affiliations

    • Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    • ,
  • Shella D. Keilholz

      Affiliations

    • Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 404 727 2433; fax: +1 404 727 9873.

Received 17 July 2009 ,Revised 18 January 2010 ,Accepted 11 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.007

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 995-1003 , September 2010

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