Volumetric BOLD fMRI simulation: From neurovascular coupling to multivoxel imaging

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chen, Zikuan ^a   Calhoun, Vince ^a,b  

^a MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blood magnetism; Bold fMRI; Intravoxel dephasing; Magnetic fieldmap; Neuroactive blob (NAB); Neurovascular coupling; Spatial correlation; Voxelization

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859931059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-12-8     Document Type: Article

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