Improved Assessment of Significant Activation in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI): Use of a Cluster‐Size Threshold

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 636-647

  Forman, Steven D ^a,b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Mark ^a,b   Eddy, William F ^a,b   Mintun, Mark A ^a,b   Noll, Douglas C ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR; significance; spatial correlation; spatial extent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028946011     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910330508     Document Type: Article

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