Transcranial focused ultrasound for BOLD fMRI signal modulation in humans

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug:2016:1758-1761. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591057.

Abstract

Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is an emerging form of non-surgical human neuromodulation that confers advantages over existing electro and electromagnetic technologies by providing a superior spatial resolution on the millimeter scale as well as the capability to target sub-cortical structures non-invasively. An examination of the pairing of tFUS and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) in humans is presented here.

MeSH terms

  • Brain Mapping*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Oxygen

Substances

  • Oxygen