Exploring the post-stimulus undershoot with spin-echo fMRI: Implications for models of neurovascular response

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-153

  Poser, Benedikt A ^a,b   Van Mierlo, Emily ^b,c   Norris, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial balloon model; BOLD fMRI; BOLD undershoot; CBF; CBV; CMRO2; FSE; Spin echo

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VOLUME; CAPILLARY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78649988855     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21003     Document Type: Article

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