Reducing interscanner variability of activation in a multicenter fMRI study: Controlling for signal-to-fluctuation-noise-ratio (SFNR) differences

NeuroImage

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 471-481

  Friedman, Lee ^a   Glover, Gary H ^b   The FBIRN Consortium, ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEVICE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33749250701     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.07.012     Document Type: Article

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