Acoustic Noise Concerns in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-141

  Moelker, Adriaan ^a   Pattynama, Peter M T ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Acoustic noise reduction; EPI; fMRI; MRI; SPL

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY CORTEX; MAGNETIC FIELD; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; REVIEW;

ARTIFACTS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; SOUND;

EID: 0242330166     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10134     Document Type: Review

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