Assessment of reliability in functional imaging studies

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 463-471

  Specht, Karsten ^a,b   Willmes, Klaus ^c   Shah, N Jon ^d   Jäncke, Lutz ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related; FMRI; Reliability; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALCULATION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037380378     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10277     Document Type: Article

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