Whole-brain functional ultrasound imaging in awake head-fixed mice

Clément Brunner, Micheline Grillet, Alan Urban, Botond Roska, Gabriel Montaldo, Emilie Macé

Published: 2021-06-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00548-8

functional ultrasound imaging

whole-brain activity

awake head-fixed mice

cerebral blood volume dynamics

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Most brain functions engage a network of distributed regions. Full investigation of these functions thus requires assessment of whole brains; however, whole-brain functional imaging of behaving animals remains challenging. This protocol describes how to f
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