Improved shimming for fMRI specifically optimizing the local BOLD sensitivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 327-336

  Balteau, Evelyne ^a,b   Hutton, Chloe ^b   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOLD sensitivity; EPI; fMRI; Shimming

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349970681     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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