Modulation of signal changes in gradient-recalled echo functional MRI with increasing echo time correlate with model calculations

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 745-752

  Barth, Markus ^a   Diemling, Markus ^a   Moser, Ewald ^a,b  

^a Institute for Medical Physics   (Austria)

^b Inst für Medizinische Physik   (Austria)

Author keywords

BOLD; Echo time variations; Functional MRI; Gradient recalled echo; Human brain; In flow; Model calculations; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD VOLUME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL CORTEX;

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EID: 0030884908     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00043-X     Document Type: Article

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