Suppression of vascular artifacts in functional magnetic resonance images using MR angiograms

NeuroImage

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 224-231

  Hluštík, Petr ^a,b,d   Noll, Douglas C ^c   Small, Steven L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0344222159     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0320     Document Type: Article

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