Current State and Future of Optogenetic Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Abstract

Abstract:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the mainstay of neuroimaging approach in neuroscience after a rapid development during the past twenty years. The optogenetic fMRI (ofMRI) is a novel technology that combines optogenetics and fMRI, which has the potential to be used to analyze the functional roles and properties of specific neurons and/or specific neurocircuits in the whole brain. It opens a new vista for exploring human brain networks both functionally and structurally.

Key words: functional magnetic resonance image, optogenetics, blood oxygen level dependent, functional connectivity

CLC Number:

O482.53

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