functional neuroimaging Flashcards
neural tracts
-intracerebral (within hemisphere)
- intercerebral (between hemisphere)
projection fibers
intracerebral neural tract
arcuate fasciculus
- transmits information from wernickes area to brocas area
longitudinal fasiculus
- integrate information and send to prefrontal cortex
intercerebral
anterior/posterior commmisures and corpus callosum
projetion fibers
thalamo-cortical radiations
- from nuclei to thalamus into corticies
corpus callosum
telencephalon
connects fibers
positron emission and singe photon emission computed tomogrophy
PET and SPEC scan
- spatial and temporal resolutions arent great
- combine with MRI to get better image
- injects radio nucleides
- gamma rays pick up by detectors
- measures glucose and oxygen metabolism during activity
PET ICC
very very invasive
lots of clinical and research use
expensive and hard to keep up
near infrared spectroscopy
laser beam and receptor
- cells have different light properties when oxy/deoxygenated and more active areas will use more oxygen
- can only map cortical areas
fNIRS
non invasive and easy to set up
not expensive and accessible
heavily used for research but some clinical use
functional magnetic resonance imagining
- MRI picks up differences in signal when doing activity and whne not doing activity
- oxy vs deoxy blood have differences in magnetic propertie s
very high spatial resolution and decent temporal resolution
blood oxygenation level dependancy (BOLD)
fNIRS and fMRI