Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 1026-1040 , September 2008

The effect of physiological noise in phase functional magnetic resonance imaging: from blood oxygen level-dependent effects to direct detection of neuronal currents

  • Gisela E. Hagberg

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Foundation Santa Lucia I.R.C.C.S., 00179 Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +390651501349; fax: +390651501213.
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  • Marta Bianciardi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Foundation Santa Lucia I.R.C.C.S., 00179 Rome, Italy
    • Advanced MRI Section, LFMI, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Valentina Brainovich

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Foundation Santa Lucia I.R.C.C.S., 00179 Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Antonino Mario Cassarà

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, Italy
    • Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro di Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, 00184 Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Bruno Maraviglia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, Italy
    • Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro di Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, 00184 Rome, Italy

Received 7 December 2007 ,Accepted 14 January 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.01.010

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 1026-1040 , September 2008

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