Experimental investigation of the relation between gradient echo BOLD fMRI contrast and underlying susceptibility changes at 7T
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at 7T Dávid Z Balla, Rosa M Sanchez Panchuelo, Samuel J Wharton, Gisela E Hagberg, Klaus Scheffler, Susan T Francis, and Richard W Bowtell High-field MR Centre, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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