Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI
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J Magn Reson Imaging · Mar 2012
Measuring the neural response to continuous intramuscular infusion of hypertonic saline by perfusion MRI.
To determine the extent to which arterial spin labeling (ASL), a functional magnetic resonance imaging technique that directly measures cerebral blood flow (CBF), is able to measure the neural activation associated with prolonged experimental muscle pain. ⋯ This study demonstrates the ability of ASL to measure changes in CBF over extended periods of time and that the neural activation caused by muscle pain is paradigm specific.