Experimental determination of the BOLD field strength dependence in vessels and tissue

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 296-302

  Gati, Joseph S ^a   Menon, Ravi S ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^b   Rutt, Brian K ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD; Cortical gray matter; Field strength; Venous vessels

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD VESSELS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; TISSUE;

BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT; BOLD; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FIELD STRENGTHS; GRAY MATTER; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION RATE; VENOUS VESSELS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VEIN DIAMETER; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030753056     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380220     Document Type: Article

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