The effect of slice order and thickness on fMRI activation data using multislice echo-planar imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 363-376

  Howseman, Alistair M ^a   Grootoonk, Sylke ^a   Porter, David A ^b   Ramdeen, Joann ^c   Holmes, Andrew P ^a   Turner, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Multislice EPI; Slice order and thickness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032797718     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0418     Document Type: Article

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