Theoretical noise model for oxygenation-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1046-1054

  Wu, Gaohong ^a   Li, Shi Jiang ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD; Contrast to noise ratio model; fMRI; Noise model; Physiologic noise; Signal to noise ratio model

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGENATION; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS; THERMAL NOISE;

BOLD; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FMRI; NOISE MODELING; PHYSIOLOGIC NOISE;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGENATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 18244402910     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20451     Document Type: Article

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