Modelling Temporal Stability of EPI Time Series Using Magnitude Images Acquired with Multi-Channel Receiver Coils

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Hutton, Chloe ^a   Balteau, Evelyne ^b   Lutti, Antoine ^a   Josephs, Oliver ^a   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL DEVICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICHANNEL RECEIVER COIL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOM; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; ROOT SUM OF SQUARE COMBINATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY VALIDATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84871420100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052075     Document Type: Article

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