Time-resolved measurements of brain activation after a short visual stimulus: New results on the physiological mechanisms of the cortical response

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 1997, Pages 222-229

  Janz, C ^a   Speck, O ^a   Hennig, J ^a  

^a MR Tomographie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Fast response; fMRI; fMRS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030670305     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1492(199706/08)10:4/5<222::AID-NBM462>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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