T2-weighted 3D fMRI usingS2-SSFP at 7 tesla
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Pass-band balanced SSFP fMRI at 7 Tesla
INTRODUCTION In fMRI, gradient-echo (GRE) single shot EPI allows a reasonable spatiotemporal resolution with robust functional activation. However, the combination of the long readout duration and echo time makes the method susceptible to image distortion, image blurring and signal dropout. Recently, balanced SSFP (bSSFP) fMRI has been proposed as an alternative method to compensate for these s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0740-3194,1522-2594
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22283