Acoustic fMRI noise: Linear time-invariant system model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2115-2123

  Rizzo Sierra, Carlos V ^a   Versluis, Maarten J ^b   Hoogduin, Johannes M ^c   Duifhuis, Hendrikus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; fMRI; Gradient noise; Linear system; SPL

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; CONTROL THEORY; FORECASTING; FUNCTIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INVARIANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODEL STRUCTURES; RESONANCE; SPECIFICATIONS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ULTRASONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC OUTPUTS; AND MODELING; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BRAIN ACTIVATION; DAMPING PROPERTIES; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FMRI; FUNCTION PREDICTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE-IMAGING; GRADIENT COILS; GRADIENT NOISE; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LINEAR ORDERS; LINEAR SYSTEM; LINEAR-TIME-INVARIANT SYSTEMS; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUND PRESSURE SIGNALS; SPL; TIME DERIVATIVES; WAVE FORMS;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50049100232     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.923112     Document Type: Article

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