Improved activation maps via the elimination of motion effects through time-domain mixing of data in conventional gradient echo functional MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 628-637

  Constable, R Todd ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Functional imaging; Gradient echo; Image artifacts; Motion

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; MOTION; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIALIZED HARDWARE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

EID: 0030883896     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380417     Document Type: Article

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