Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Transfer functions linking neural calcium to single voxel functional ultrasound signal

  • Ali-Kemal Aydin,
  • William D. Haselden,
  • Yannick Goulam Houssen,
  • Christophe Pouzat,
  • Ravi L. Rungta,
  • Charlie Demené,
  • Mickael Tanter,
  • Patrick J. Drew,
  • Serge Charpak,
  • Davide Boido

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16774-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Neurovascular coupling refers to changes in cerebral blood flow in response to neuronal stimulation, but to what extent this change can report neuronal activation is not known. Here the authors develop transfer functions between neural calcium signals and functional ultrasound changes in blood volume in co-registered single voxel brain volumes.