Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
406-01-004 ISMRM Abstract

Intensity encoding of sensory stimulation in the spinal cord with fMRI

Primary: Neuro - Spinal Cord
Secondary: Brain Function and fMRI - Task/Intervention Based fMRI
406-01-004 · fMRI: Acquisition and Preprocessing · Tuesday, 12 May, 8:20 AM–10:10 AM · Auditorium 2
Keywords: fMRI (task based) Spinal Cord Dermatomes Spatial Normalization Electrocutaneous Stimulation
Accepted
Sandrine Bédard 1, Merve Kaptan2, Teresa Indriolo2, Christine S W Law2, Dario Pfyffer2, John Ratliff3, Serena Hu4, Suzanne Tharin3, Zachary A Smith5, Gary H Glover6, Sean Mackey2, Julien Cohen-Adad7,8,9,10, Kenneth Weber11
1NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
3Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
4Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
5Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, United States of America
6Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
7NeuroPoly Lab, Montreal, Canada
8Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Canada
9Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Montreal, Canada
10Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada
11Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Sandrine Bédard

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