Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IBiTech)

Visualization of the rat somatosensory network

Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is an imaging technique to investigate neuronal activation. It is well known that non-noxious electrical stimulation of the rat forepaw leads to neuronal activation of the somatosensory network. Neuroimaging studies have been performed to visualize the entire rodent somatosensory network, especially the subcortical regions. A data-driven technique (Independent Component Analysis, ICA) was used to identify the somatosensory network.

Figure 1 : Visualization of the rat somatosensory network.
Figure 1 : Visualization of the rat somatosensory network.

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