Multislice interleaved excitation cycles (MUSIC): An efficient gradient-echo technique for functional MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 870-874

  Loenneker, Thomas ^a   Hennel, Franciszek ^b   Hennig, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FORENAP   (France)

Author keywords

Cortical activation; Functional imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Photic stimulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; CORTICAL ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; HUMAN VISUAL CORTEX; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029954472     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350613     Document Type: Article

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