Evaluation of the early response in fMRI in individual subjects using short stimulus duration

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 877-884

  Hu, Xiaoping ^a   Le, Tuong Huu ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD; Early response; fMRI; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

BOLD; EARLY RESPONSE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FMRI; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 8544281645     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370612     Document Type: Article

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