Quantitative assessment of blood inflow effects in functional MRI signals

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 314-319

  Gao, Jia Hong ^a   Miller, Ira ^b   Lai, Song ^c   Xiong, Jinhu ^a   Fox, Peter T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

EPI; flow; functional MRI (fMRI); gradient echo sequence

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; FLOW VELOCITY; MICROCIRCULATION; SIGNAL SYSTEMS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; FLOW; FUNCTIONAL MRI; FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI); GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; PULSE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

BLOOD;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VEIN;

EID: 0029783656     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360219     Document Type: Article

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