Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1258-1269 , November 2010

Retinotopic mapping with spin echo BOLD at 7T

  • Cheryl A. Olman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Departments of Psychology and Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Tel.: +1 612 626 7607; fax: +1 612 626 2079.
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  • Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer F. Schumacher

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • ,
  • Joseph R. Guy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • ,
  • Kâmil Uğurbil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • ,
  • Essa Yacoub

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Received 6 January 2010 ,Revised 17 March 2010 ,Accepted 10 June 2010.

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PII: S0730-725X(10)00158-X

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.001

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1258-1269 , November 2010

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