Functional neuroimaging of inner fields-of-view with 2D-selective RF excitations

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1228-1235

  Finsterbusch, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D selective RF excitation; EPI; FMRI; Functional neuroimaging; High resolution; Inner field of view

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84880728909     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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