Optimized EPI for fMRI studies of the orbitofrontal cortex: compensation of susceptibility-induced gradients in the readout direction
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and MedicinePublished 1 February 2007Open access
Nikolaus Weiskopf, Chloe Hutton, Oliver Josephs, Robert Turner, Ralf Deichmann
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A model-based compensation approach effectively reduces BOLD sensitivity losses due to susceptibility- induced gradients in the RO direction and retains the high temporal resolution of single-shot EPI and can be readily combined with methods for the compensation of susceptibility-induced field gradientsIn the phase-encoding and through-plane direction.
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The model-based compensation approach effectively reduces BOLD sensitivity losses due to susceptibility-induced gradients in the RO direction. It retains the high temporal resolution of single-shot EPI and can be readily combined with methods for the compensation of susceptibility-induced field gradients in the phase-encoding and through-plane direction.
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