Effect of luminance contrast on BOLD fMRI response in human primary visual areas

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2204-2207

  Goodyear, Bradley G ^a   Menon, Ravi S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0031921534     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.4.2204     Document Type: Article

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