Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 235-244 , February 2010

Evaluation of preprocessing steps to compensate for magnetic field distortions due to body movements in BOLD fMRI

  • Robert L. Barry

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9
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  • Joy M. Williams

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • ,
  • L. Martyn Klassen

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • ,
  • Jason P. Gallivan

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program in Neuroscience, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B8
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  • Jody C. Culham

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program in Neuroscience, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B8
    • Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2
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  • Ravi S. Menon

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9
    • Graduate Program in Neuroscience, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B8
    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 4 February 2009 ,Revised 26 June 2009 ,Accepted 4 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.07.005

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 235-244 , February 2010

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