Assessment of data acquisition parameters, and analysis techniques for noise reduction in spinal cord fMRI data

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 473-481

  Bosma, R L ^a   Stroman, P W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Contrast to noise; False positives; FMRI; Normalization; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899067199     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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