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Shedding light on the BOLD fMRI response

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Fluorescence recording of neural activity in the magnetic resonance scanner is a new strategy for examining the cellular underpinnings of blood oxygenation level–dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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Figure 1: Experimental approach for examining the relationship between single-cell activity and fMRI signals.

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  1. Serge Charpak is at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U603, Paris, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8154, Paris, France; and Laboratory of Neurophysiology and New Microscopies, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,

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  3. Bojana Stefanovic is at Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,

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Charpak, S., Stefanovic, B. Shedding light on the BOLD fMRI response. Nat Methods 9, 547–549 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2039

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