Application of parallel imaging to fMRI at 7 tesla utilizing a high 1D reduction factor

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 118-129

  Moeller, Steen ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre Francois ^a   Goerke, Ute ^a   Adriany, Gregor ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

7 Tesla; fMRI; k space; Parallel imaging; Sensitivity calibration

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

7 TESLAS; FMRI; K SPACE; PARALLEL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY CALIBRATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745685609     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20934     Document Type: Article

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