Single shot partial dual echo (SPADE) EPI-an efficient acquisition scheme for reducing susceptibility artefacts in fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2234-2237

  Schwarzbauer, Christian ^a,b   Porter, David A ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 72149122082     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.059     Document Type: Article

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