Imaging pain in humans
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Imaging pain in humans.
Cerebral pain mechanisms are poorly understood when compared with the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord. Reasons for this have included a lack of suitable examination techniques, especially in humans. The recent availability of a number of relatively non-invasive methods that can produce images of functional brain activity has renewed interest in this field. Three of these techniques wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/75.2.209