Functional magnetic resonance imaging: A review of methodological aspects and clinical applications

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Speck, Oliver ^a   Koch, Martin A ^b   Weiller, Cornelius ^b  

^a Section of Medical Physics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical applications; EPI; fMRI; High field fMRI; Methodology; Spiral

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0038787548     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10330     Document Type: Review

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