Mechanisms underlying decoding at 7 T: Ocular dominance columns, broad structures, and macroscopic blood vessels in V1 convey information on the stimulated eye

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1957-1964

  Shmuel, Amir ^a,c   Chaimow, Denis ^b   Raddatz, Guenter ^b   Ugurbil, Kamil ^b,c   Yacoub, Essa ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

7 T; Classification; Cortical columns; Decoding; fMRI; Functional MRI; High resolution; Multivariate analysis; Ocular dominance; Striate cortex; Ultra high field; V1; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EYE DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 71849116262     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.08.040     Document Type: Note

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