Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at 7 T in the Rat Barrel Cortex During Whisker ActivationJordy Blanc 1, Hélène Roumes 1, Leslie Mazuel 1, Philippe Massot 1, Gérard Raffard 1, Marc Biran 1, Anne-Karine Bouzier-Sore 1
1Centre de Résonance Magnétique des Systèmes Biologiques (CRMSB), Unités Mixtes de Recherche (UMR) 5536, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Université Bordeaux
After checking by blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD fMRI) that the corresponding somatosensory barrel field cortex area (called S1BF) is correctly activated, the main goal of this study is to quantify lactate content fluctuations in the activated rat brains by localized proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) at 7 T.
