Report on a multicenter fMRI quality assurance protocol

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 827-839

  Friedman, Lee ^a,c   Glover, Gary H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Phantom; Quality assurance; SNR; Stability

Indexed keywords

BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT CONTRAST; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SIGNAL FLUCTUATION NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRAIN MAPPING; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744728683     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20583     Document Type: Review

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