Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Functional ultrasound imaging of the brain reveals propagation of task-related brain activity in behaving primates

  • Alexandre Dizeux,
  • Marc Gesnik,
  • Harry Ahnine,
  • Kevin Blaize,
  • Fabrice Arcizet,
  • Serge Picaud,
  • José-Alain Sahel,
  • Thomas Deffieux,
  • Pierre Pouget,
  • Mickael Tanter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09349-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Neuroimaging modalities such as MRI and EEG are able to record brain activity, but spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity are limited. Here, the authors show how a recently developed method, functional ultrasound imaging (fUS), can measure brain activation during cognitive tasks in primates.