Fuzzy clustering of gradient-echo functional MRI in the human visual cortex. Part I: Reproducibility

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1094-1101

  Baumgartner, Richard ^a   Scarth, Gordon ^b   Teichtmeister, Claudia ^a   Somorjai, Ray ^b   Moser, Ewald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Fuzzy clustering; Gradient echo; Human brain; Reproducibility; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031397534     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880070623     Document Type: Article

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