Functional MRI at 3T using intermolecular double-quantum coherence (iDQC) with spin-echo (SE) acquisitions

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 255-264

  Gu, T ^a   Kennedy, S D ^b   Chen, Z ^a   Schneider, K A ^a   Zhong, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distant dipolar field (DDF); fMRI; Intermolecular double quantum coherence (iDQC); Spin echo (SE)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMOLECULAR DOUBLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RELAXATION TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 37749047205     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-007-0093-z     Document Type: Article

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