Cerebral Activation Associated with Visually Evoked Sexual Arousal in the Limbic System: Functional MR Imaging
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Eun, Sung-Jong
(Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Jeong, Gwang-Woo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School) Kim, Hyung-Joong (Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School) Seo, Jeong-Jin (Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School) Kang, Heoung-Keun (Department of Radiology, Chonnam National University Medical School) Cho, Ki-Hyun (Department of Neurology, Chonnam National University Medical School) Yoon, Ka-Hyun (Department of Psychology, Chonnam National University) Kim, Kyung-Yo (Department of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, Wonkwang University) |
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