Real-time automated spectral assessment of the BOLD response for neurofeedback at 3 and 7T

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 148-160

  Koush, Yury ^a,b,c   Elliott, Mark A ^d   Scharnowski, Frank ^a,b   Mathiak, Klaus ^c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BOLD; Feedback; FMRI; FSVPS; High and ultra high magnetic field; MRS; Neurofeedback; Real time; Time and frequency domain estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME FUNCTIONAL SINGLE VOXEL PROTON SPECTROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; VISUAL CORTEX;

BOLD; FEEDBACK; FMRI; FSVPS; HIGH AND ULTRA-HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD; MRS; NEUROFEEDBACK; REAL-TIME; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN ESTIMATION;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880585349     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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