Imaging Pain with ultra-high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging
S Nägel, D Holle, S Maderwald, S Orzada, A Bitz, Z Katsarava, HC Diener, ME Ladd, M Obermann · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2012 · Heft 03
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Aims: In gerneral human pain processing is studied well, but unfortunately, a substantial portion of the pathophysiology of pain is poorly understood. Ultra-high-field MRI and its high signal to noise ratio(SNR) might help to close those gaps. The aim of our study was to establish a protocol to analyse electrically evoked human pain processing across the whole brain in ultra-high-field fMRI. Methods: Functional images were acquired on a 7 Tesla scanner(Siemens Magnetom 7T). 6 neurologically healthy subjects took part in the study. We investigated pain processing in a block design using a multi-echo [1] echo plan…
