Measuring functional connectivity using MEG: Methodology and comparison with fcMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1082-1104

  Brookes, Matthew J ^a   Hale, Joanne R ^a   Zumer, Johanna M ^a   Stevenson, Claire M ^a   Francis, Susan T ^a   Barnes, Gareth R ^b   Owen, Julia P ^c,d   Morris, Peter G ^a   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; BOLD; Coherence; Envelope correlation; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Imaginary coherence; MEG; Neural oscillations; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN;

EID: 79955480798     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.054     Document Type: Article

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