Blind estimation for localized low contrast-to-noise ratio BOLD signals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 879-890

  Atkinson, Ian C ^a   Kamalabadi, Farzad ^b   Jones, Douglas L ^b   Thulborn, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD contrast; Brain mapping; Estimation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Signal detection; Signal estimation

Indexed keywords

BLIND EQUALIZATION; ESTIMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OXYGENATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BLIND ESTIMATIONS; BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT SIGNALS; BOLD CONTRAST; BRAIN MAPPING; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FMRI DATUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL LINEAR MODELS; LOW CONTRASTS; PRE-SURGICAL PLANNING; PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; ROBUST DETECTIONS; SIGNAL ESTIMATION; SMALL REGIONS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 60549115446     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2007763     Document Type: Article

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