Balanced steady-state free precession with parallel imaging gives distortion-free fMRI with high temporal resolution

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Chappell, Michael ^a   Håberg, Asta K ^a,b   Kristoffersen, Anders ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

FMRI; GE EPI artifacts; Parallel imaging; Pass band balanced steady state free precession; Physiological noise; SENSE; SNR; Temporal resolution; TR; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649951393     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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