Table I.
Cervical Cord Average Signal Changes (SD) and Number of Subjects Having Activated Voxels During the Performance of a Tactile Stimulation of the Palm of the Subjects' Right Hand in the Right Anterior and Posterior, and left Anterior and Posterior Quadrants of the Cervical Cord at Different Cord Levels in Healthy Subjects
| Spinal level | C5 | C5/C6 | C6 | C6/C7 | C7 | C7/C8 | C8 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | |||||||
| Region | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P |
| Average signal change [%] (SD) | 3.2 (0.5) | 3.5 (0.6) | 3.3 (0.6) | 3.0 (0.5) | 3.3 (0.7) | 3.4 (0.9) | 3.2 (0.8) | 3.3 (—) | 3.6 (0.7) | 3.5 (0.8) | 3.8 (1.8) | 2.8 (0.8) | 4.6 (—) | 3.6 (0.9) |
| Number of subjects | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Side | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | |||||||
| Region | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P | A | P |
| Average signal change [%] (SD) | 3.2 (1.7) | 2.9 (1.0) | 3.2 (1.0) | 3.5 (1.0) | 4.0 (1.2) | 3.1 (1.1) | 3.5 (1.4) | 3.1 (0.6) | 3.3 (0.2) | 3.3 (0.7) | — | 3.5 (0.3) | — | — |
| Number of subjects | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | 2 | — | — |
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; R, right; A, anterior; P, posterior; L, left.