BOLD imaging in the mouse brain using a turboCRAZED sequence at high magnetic fields

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 850-859

  Schneider, Johannes T ^a   Faber, Cornelius ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

DDF; Fast multi echo readout; iMQC; Small animal fMRI

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPIN POLARIZATION;

BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; FAST MULTI-ECHO READOUT; FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI); HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; IMQC; INTERMOLECULAR DOUBLE-QUANTUM COHERENCES; SMALL ANIMAL; TURBO SPIN ECHOS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PHANTOM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 53549111656     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21716     Document Type: Article

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