Investigating the benefits of multi-echo EPI for fMRI at 7 T

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1162-1172

  Poser, Benedikt A ^a,b   Norris, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MULTI ECHO ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 62049085074     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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