An Introduction to Normalization and Calibration Methods in Functional MRI

Psychometrika

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 308-321

  Liu, Thomas T ^a   Glover, Gary H ^b   Mueller, Bryon A ^c   Greve, Douglas N ^d   Brown, Gregory G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; calibrated fMRI; cerebral blood flow; functional MRI; hypercapnia; quantitative fMRI

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CALIBRATION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84875373905     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-012-9309-x     Document Type: Article

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