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Functional whole-brain imaging in behaving rodents

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A wearable imaging device allows functional whole-brain imaging of awake, freely moving rats. This technology opens up a noninvasive window for simultaneously assessing brain function and behavior in response to a wide variety of interventions in living rats.

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Figure 1: Illustration of a wearable PET scanner that permits imaging of radioligands or other radiotracers in awake rats at the same time as behavioral data are being acquired.

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  1. Simon R. Cherry is in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.,

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Cherry, S. Functional whole-brain imaging in behaving rodents. Nat Methods 8, 301–303 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0411-301

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