Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Full activation pattern mapping by simultaneous deep brain stimulation and fMRI with graphene fiber electrodes

  • Siyuan Zhao,
  • Gen Li,
  • Chuanjun Tong,
  • Wenjing Chen,
  • Puxin Wang,
  • Jiankun Dai,
  • Xuefeng Fu,
  • Zheng Xu,
  • Xiaojun Liu,
  • Linlin Lu,
  • Zhifeng Liang,
  • Xiaojie Duan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15570-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Combination of fMRI and deep brain stimulation (DBS) allows for large-scale mapping of brain responses to DBS. Here the authors develop highly MRI compatible graphene fiber electrodes for full brain activation pattern mapping under DBS in Parkinsonian rats.