On the numerically predicted spatial BOLD fMRI specificity for spin echo sequences

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1195-1204

  Pflugfelder, Daniel ^a   Vahedipour, Kaveh ^a   Uludaǧ, Kamil ^b   Shah, N Jon ^a,c   Stöcker, Tony ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CSF; FMRI; Infinite cylinder model; Mono exponential signal decay; Spatial specificity; Spin echo BOLD fMRI signal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO TIME; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FIELD STRENGTH; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MICROVASCULATURE; MONO EXPONENTIAL SIGNAL DECAY APPROXIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PIA ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; SIGNAL DETECTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OXYGEN; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 80054789632     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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