Quantifying the spatial resolution of the gradient echo and spin echo BOLD response at 3 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1465-1472

  Parkes, Laura M ^a,d   Schwarzbach, Jens V ^b   Bouts, Annemieke A ^c   Deckers, Roel H R ^c   Pullens, Pim ^c   Kerskens, Christian M ^a   Norris, David G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOLD; fMRI; Spatial resolution; Spin echo

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; NEUROIMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; BOLD; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FMRI; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPIN ECHO; SPIN ECHO TECHNIQUES; SPIN-ECHO SIGNALS;

SPIN POLARIZATION;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN ECHO IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 28444494723     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20712     Document Type: Article

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