Functional magnetic resonance imaging: Imaging techniques and contrast mechanisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1387, 1999, Pages 1179-1194

  Howseman, Alistair M ^a,c   Bowtell, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c SMIS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOLD contrast; Brain mapping; Echo planar imaging; fMRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033615044     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0473     Document Type: Article

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