High-resolution, multiple gradient-echo functional MRI at 1.5 T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-329

  Barth, Markus ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^b   Venkatesan, Ramesh ^c   Moser, Ewald ^a   Haacke, E Mark ^c  

^a AGNMR   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD; Functional MRI; High resolution; Human brain; Motor cortex; Multiple gradient echo; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MOTOR CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032958011     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00191-X     Document Type: Article

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