Evaluating fMRI preprocessing pipelines

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 27-41

  Strother, Stephen C ^a,b,c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EVALUATION; FILTER DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL BIAS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SIMULATOR; SPIN LABELING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 33645227944     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2006.1607667     Document Type: Review

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