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Optogenetic Functional MRI
Published on: April 19, 2016
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen1, Jonathan M Cayce, Robert Friedman
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 USA.
Infrared neural stimulation (INS) successfully activated the central nervous system (CNS) in vivo, generating optical signals comparable to mechanical methods. This breakthrough could enable precise, single-cell neural prosthetics.
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