MR-compatible device for monitoring hand tracing and writing tasks in fMRI with an application to healthy subjects

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-152

  Diciotti, Stefano ^a   Cecchi, Paolo ^a   Ginestroni, Andrea ^a   Mazzoni, Lorenzo Nicola ^a   Pesaresi, Ilaria ^b   Lombardo, Simone ^a   Boni, Enrico ^a   Cosottini, Mirco ^b   Soricelli, Andrea ^c,d   De Stefano, Nicola ^e   Mascalchi, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioral task monitoring; Blob detection; Functional MRI; Laplacian of Gaussian; Optoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955798725     PISSN: 15466086     EISSN: 15525023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.a.20158     Document Type: Article

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