Dual echo EPI - The method of choice for fMRI in the presence of magnetic field inhomogeneities?

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 316-326

  Schwarzbauer, Christian ^a,b   Mildner, Toralf ^c   Heinke, Wolfgang ^d   Brett, Matthew ^e   Deichmann, Ralf ^f  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCAPNIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349968019     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.08.032     Document Type: Article

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