Whole brain high-resolution functional imaging at ultra high magnetic fields: An application to the analysis of resting state networks

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1031-1044

  De Martino, Federico ^a,b   Esposito, Fabrizio ^a   van de Moortele, Pierre Francois ^b   Harel, Noam ^b,c   Formisano, Elia ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^b   Yacoub, Essa ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Independent component analysis; Resting state; Ultra high field functional magnetic resonance imaging; Whole brain fMRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEADY STATE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REST;

EID: 79959762481     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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