Full-brain coverage and high-resolution imaging capabilities of passband b-SSFP fMRI at 3T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1099-1110

  Jin, Hyung Lee ^a,b   Dumoulin, Serge O ^b   Saritas, Emine U ^a   Glover, Gary H ^c   Wandell, Brian A ^b   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a   Pauly, John M ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

b SSFP; Brain; Diffusion; fMRI; Oxygen; SSFP

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DIFFUSION; OXYGEN;

FMRI; HIGH RESOLUTION ACQUISITIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; SPATIAL DISTORTION; SSFP; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

BRAIN MAPPING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BREATH HOLDING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 42549139817     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21576     Document Type: Article

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