Continuous ASL perfusion fMRI investigation of higher cognition: Quantification of tonic CBF changes during sustained attention and working memory tasks

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 376-385

  Kim, Junghoon ^a,b   Whyte, John ^a,c   Wang, Jiongjiong ^b,d   Rao, Hengyi ^b   Tang, Kathy Z ^b   Detre, John A ^b,d  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 back task; Arterial spin labeling; CASL; Cerebral blood flow; Clinical neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 33646564117     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.035     Document Type: Article

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