Quantitative assessment of visual cortex function with fMRI at 7 Tesla—test–retest variability

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue september, 2015, Pages 1-11

  Hamid, Aini Ismafairus Abd ^a,b   Speck, Oliver ^a,c,d,e   Hoffmann, Michael B ^a,c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Longitudinal; Reliability; Reproducibility; Retinotopic maps; Test retest; Visual areas

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SURFACE AREA; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84940979269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00477     Document Type: Article

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