A Novel Technique for Functional MRI in Regions of Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity – Z-shim Asymmetric Spin-Echo (ASE) Spiral
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K. D. Brewer, R. C. D'Arcy, C. V. Bowen, and S. D. Beyea Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Institute for Biodiagnostics (Atlantic), National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Departments of Psychology and Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Departments of Physics, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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