FMRI measurements of amygdala activation are confounded by stimulus correlated signal fluctuation in nearby veins draining distant brain regions

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Boubela, Roland N ^a,b   Kalcher, Klaudius ^a,b   Huf, Wolfgang ^a,b   Seidel, Eva Maria ^c   Derntl, Birgit ^d   Pezawas, Lukas ^b   Našel, Christian ^e   Moser, Ewald ^a,b,f  

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Universitätsklinikum Tulln Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität für Gesundheitswissenschaften   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN VEIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL VEINS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84930216376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10499     Document Type: Article

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