Functional MRI in human subjects with gradient-echo and spin-echo EPI at 9.4 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 209-218

  Budde, Juliane ^a,b   Shajan, G ^a   Zaitsev, Maxim ^c   Scheffler, Klaus ^a,d   Pohmann, Rolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

BOLD; GRE EPI; human imaging; SE EPI; tissue; ultra high field; veins

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OXYGEN; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPIN POLARIZATION; TISSUE;

BOLD; GRE-EPI; HUMAN IMAGING; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS; VEINS;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNET; MOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME;

BOLD; GRE-EPI; HUMAN IMAGING; SE-EPI; TISSUE; ULTRA-HIGH FIELD; VEINS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84890787249     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24656     Document Type: Article

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