Reproducibility and postprocessing of gradient-echo functional MRI to improve localization of brain activity in the human visual cortex

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 567-579

  Moser, Ewald ^a   Teichtmeister, Claudia ^a   Diemling, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Correlation thresholds; FMRI; Gradient echo; Human brain; Reproducibility; Statistical analysis; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029859107     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0730-725X(96)00095-1     Document Type: Article

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