Inaudible functional MRI using a truly mute gradient echo sequence

Neuroradiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 893-899

  Marcar, V L ^a   Girard, F ^b   Rinkel, Y ^c   Schneider, J F ^c   Martin, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adult volunteers; Auditory stimulus; Non parametric statistical analysis; Silent functional magnetic resonance imaging; Visual stimulus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0036942890     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-002-0837-4     Document Type: Article

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