High-field fMRI unveils orientation columns in humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 10607-10612

  Yacoub, Essa ^a   Harel, Noam ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 tesla; Blood oxygen level dependent contrast; Cortical map; High resolution; Spin echo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 48749112737     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804110105     Document Type: Article

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