Transcranial focused ultrasound for BOLD fMRI signal modulation in humans.

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug;2016:1758-1761

Authors: Leo Ai, Mueller JK, Grant A, Eryaman Y, Wynn Legon

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.

PMID: 28268667 [PubMed - in process]