MRI-compatible pneumatic stimulator for sensorimotor mapping.

Journal: Journal of neuroscience methods
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Two major concerns with respect to task-based motor functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are inadequate participants' performance as well as intra- and inter-subject variability in execution of the motor action.

Authors

  • Valentina Lolli
    Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Neuroradiology, Service of Radiology, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: Valentina.Lolli@erasme.ulb.ac.be.
  • Antonin Rovai
    Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Functional Neuroimaging, Service of Nuclear Medicine, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Nicola Trotta
    Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Functional Neuroimaging, Service of Nuclear Medicine, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Mathieu Bourguignon
    Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Serge Goldman
    Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Functional Neuroimaging, Service of Nuclear Medicine, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Niloufar Sadeghi
    Department of Neuroradiology, Service of Radiology, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Veikko Jousmäki
    Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; NatMEG, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • Xavier De Tiège
    Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Functional Neuroimaging, Service of Nuclear Medicine, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.