Submillimeter functional localization in human striate cortex using BOLD contrast at 4 Tesla: Implications for the vascular point-spread function

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 230-235

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood oxygenation level dependent; Cortical vasculature point spread function; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGENATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL LOCALIZATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORIZONTAL CONNECTION; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VASCULATURE;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033005698     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199902)41:2<230::AID-MRM3>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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