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SUBMITTER: Berns GS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6127269 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berns Gregory S GS Spivak Mark M Nemanic Sarah S Northrup Nicole N
Frontiers in veterinary science 20180831
Training dogs for awake-MRI began in 2012 for the study of canine cognition. Although originally envisioned as a research technique to understand the neural mechanisms of canine cognitive function, its potential as a new diagnostic clinical tool has become apparent. A high-quality structural scan of the brain can be acquired without sedation or anesthesia in as little as 30 s in a well-trained dog. This has opened the possibility of longitudinal imaging of CNS disease with MRI both as a means of ...[more]