A quantitative comparison of simultaneous BOLD fMRI and NIRS recordings during functional brain activation

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 719-731

  Strangman, Gary ^a,b   Culver, Joseph P ^a   Thompson, John H ^a   Boas, David A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deoxyhemoglobin; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Near infrared spectroscopy; Oxyhemoglobin; T1*

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKULL;

EID: 0036429981     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)91227-9     Document Type: Article

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