Segmented spin-echo pulses to increase fMRI signal: Repeated intrinsic diffusional enhancement

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 631-635

  Song, Allen W ^a,d   Mao, Hui ^b   Muthupillai, Raja ^b   Haist, Frank ^c   Dixon, W Thomas ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD; Capillary; Diffusion; FMRI

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT; BOLD; CAPILLARY; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; CONTAMINATING SIGNALS; FMRI; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSVERSE RELAXATION;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032869938     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-2594(199910)42:4<631::aid-mrm3>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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