Empirical Evaluations of Slice-Timing, Smoothing, and Normalization Effects in Seed-Based, Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analyses

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 401-410

  Wu, Changwei W ^a   Chen, Chia Lin ^b   Liu, po yu ^c   Chao, Yi Ping ^d   Biswal, Bharat B ^e   Lin, Ching po ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

functional connectivity; motor system; preprocessing; resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs fMRI); volume registration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879181543     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2011.0018     Document Type: Article

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