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Activation-blood flow coupling during direct somatosensory cortical stimulation in living rat brain

  • Zhongchi Luo
  • , Helene Benveniste
  • , Mei Yu
  • , Congwu Du
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Laser Doppler flowmetry was used to characterize the cortical activation-blood flow coupling due to direct stimulation in somatosensory cortex of rat brain in vivo. Both amplitude and duration of the flow response increased along with the increases in stimulation current. Flow response became to saturate in a high-grade stimulation with the current above 0.3 mA. The flow response also featured a fast activation due to the stimulus and a slow recovery, which may imply an indirect coupling between neural activity and recruitment of local blood delivery.

Original languageEnglish
Pages664-666
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2005 - Arlington, VA, United States
Duration: Mar 16 2005Mar 19 2005

Conference

Conference2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityArlington, VA
Period03/16/0503/19/05

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