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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2015 Nov 24;126:219–228. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.042

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Comparison between β measured at different brain activity levels (α-chloralose vs. medetomidine). (A) A comparison of the corresponding spike density functions showed a roughly two times higher activity level with medetomidine. See also Table 3. (B) Mean β images for representative slices in rats anesthetized with α-chloralose and medetomidine. (C) Relationship between regional β with α-chloralose (βα) and medetomidine (βmed) showed strong correlation (r2 = 0.91), indicating a very similar pattern for β in all ROIs across brain states. Regions of both maximum and minimum for β were nearly identical among α-chloralose and medetomidine. Among all ROIs, maximum β was among the primary somatosensory regions, while minimum β was found in ic (Βα = 0.48±0.08. βmed = 0.43±0.01). In subcortical gray matter, maximum β was observed in Hif (Βα = 0.73±0.10. βmed = 0.66±0.04). ANOVA test suggested that βmed were not significantly different from βα (p > 0.05). Likewise, student's t-test did not give significant difference in any ROI between α-chloralose and medetomidine.