Cortical Depth Dependent Functional Responses in Humans at 7T: Improved Specificity with 3D GRASE

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  De Martino, Federico ^a,b   Zimmermann, Jan ^b   Muckli, Lars ^c,d   Ugurbil, Kamil ^a   Yacoub, Essa ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84875347632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060514     Document Type: Article

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