Scanning fast and slow: Current limitations of 3 Tesla functional MRI and future potential

Frontiers in Physics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Boubela, Roland N ^a,b   Kalcher, Klaudius ^a,b   Nasel, Christian ^b,c   Moser, Ewald ^a,b,d  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c State Clinical Center   (Austria)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Physiologicalnoise; Restingstate; Sensitivity; Specificity; Speed

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN FUNCTIONS; CURRENT LIMITATION; FMRI; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; PHYSIOLOGICALNOISE; RESTING STATE; SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL CHANGES; SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN;

EID: 84899637786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296424X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2014.00001     Document Type: Article

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