Functional MRI of the human brain with GRASE-based BOLD contrast

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 871-876

  Jovicich, Jorge ^a,b   Norris, David G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Displaced echo; Functional MRI; GRASE imaging; Template interactive phase encoding

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT; CARRPURCELL-MEIBOOM-GILL (CPMG); DISPLACED-ECHO; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI; INDUCED SIGNAL; PHASE ENCODING;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 0032953637     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199905)41:5<871::AID-MRM3>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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