Enhanced sensitivity with fast three-dimensional blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional MRI: Comparison of SENSE-PRESTO and 2D-EPI at 3T

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 663-676

  Neggers, Sebastiaan F W ^a,b   Hermans, Erno J ^b,c   Ramsey, Nick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD); Echo planar imaging (EPI); Functional MRI; MR pulse sequence; Principle of echo shifting with a train of observations (PRESTO); Sensitivity encoding (SENSE)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BLOOD; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; NONMETALS; OXYGEN; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

3D SCANNING; A-TRAIN; BLOOD-OXYGEN-LEVEL DEPENDENT (BOLD); BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN SCAN; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING (EPI); ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; FIELD STRENGTHS; FIXED TIME; FREQUENCY RANGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI; MR PULSE SEQUENCE; NEURAL ACTIVITIES; ONE WAY; PRINCIPLE OF ECHO SHIFTING WITH A TRAIN OF OBSERVATIONS (PRESTO); PULSE SEQUENCES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATION; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; SENSITIVITY ENCODING (SENSE); SIGNAL CHANGES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; T-STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D);

PHOTORESISTS;

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 50049108951     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1235     Document Type: Article

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