Interpreting the BOLD signal

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2004, Pages 735-769

  Logothetis, Nikos K ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood oxygen level dependent; fMRI; Local field potential; Multiunit activity; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METABOLIC RATE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE MEMBRANE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 2342586800     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.66.082602.092845     Document Type: Review

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