Plasticity of the Injured Human Spinal Cord: Insights Revealed by Spinal Cord Functional MRI
Figure 2
Shown is the spinal fMRI region of interest analysis of an uninjured 24-year-old male who underwent thermal stimulation of the C5 and C8 dermatomes on both the right and left side. The blue bar graphs represent the absolute number of active voxels contained within the dorsal quadrant each spinal cord zone. Positive indicates a change in proton density above the resting baseline and negative indicates a change below the resting baseline. Below each bar graph is the activation pattern across the stimulated region in axial cross-section. A T2 anatomical image is provided to the right for reference.