Change of Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury: Graph Theory Based Approach

摘要

ObjectiveTo investigate the global functional reorganization of the brain following spinal cord injury with graph theory based approach by creating whole brain functional connectivity networks from resting state-functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), characterizing the reorganization of these networks using graph theoretical metrics and to compare these metrics between patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and age-matched controls.