Functional connectivity estimation in fMRI data: Influence of preprocessing and time course selection

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1040-1052

  Gavrilescu, Maria ^a,b   Stuart, Geoffrey W ^b   Rossell, Susan ^a   Henshall, Katherine ^b   McKay, Colette ^b,c   Sergejew, Alex A ^a   Copolov, David ^a,d   Egan, Gary F ^b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; ICA denoising; Time course selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 51449084184     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20446     Document Type: Article

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