Optimized 3 T EPI of the amygdalae

NeuroImage

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 203-210

  Robinson, S ^a   Windischberger, C ^a   Rauscher, A ^a   Moser, E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN FÜR RADIODIAGNOSTIK   (Austria)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdalae; fMRI; GR EPI

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL VEINS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 1942425057     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.12.048     Document Type: Article

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