High‐resolution echo‐planar fMRI of human visual cortex at 3.0 tesla

KR Thulborn, SY Chang, GX Shen… - NMR in Biomedicine …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The robust detection of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast1, 2 that is due
to the hemodynamic response elicited by changes in neuronal activity is challenging. The …

Imaging brain function in humans at 7 Tesla

E Yacoub, A Shmuel, J Pfeuffer… - … in Medicine: An …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes experimental studies performed to demonstrate the feasibility of BOLD
fMRI using echo‐planar imaging (EPI) at 7 T and to characterize the BOLD response in …

Cortical depth‐dependent gradient‐echo and spin‐echo BOLD fMRI at 9.4 T

F Zhao, P Wang, SG Kim - … in Medicine: An Official Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
To examine cortical depth‐related spatial specificity and signal changes in gradient‐echo
(GE) and spin‐echo (SE) blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) fMRI signals, a well …

Signal sources in bold contrast fMRI

R Turner - Optical Imaging of Brain Function and Metabolism 2 …, 1997 - Springer
When a non-diffusible paramagnetic contrast agent is present in the blood, the mechanism
of MRI signal loss is as follows. The contrast agent has a magnetic susceptibility higher than …

Source of nonlinearity in echo‐time‐dependent BOLD fMRI

T Jin, P Wang, M Tasker, F Zhao… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Stimulation‐induced changes in transverse relaxation rates can provide important insight
into underlying physiological changes in blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) …

[HTML][HTML] Laminar fMRI using T2-prepared multi-echo FLASH

V Pfaffenrot, MN Voelker, S Kashyap, PJ Koopmans - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using blood oxygenation level dependent
(BOLD) contrast at a sub-millimeter scale is a promising technique to probe neural activity at …

Temporal resolving power of spin echo and gradient echo fMRI at 3T with apparent diffusion coefficient compartmentalization

J Hulvershorn, L Bloy, EE Gualtieri… - Human brain …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The temporal resolving power of blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 3T was investigated in the visual and auditory …

Quantitative differentiation between BOLD models in fMRI

FGC Hoogenraad, PJW Pouwels… - … in Medicine: An …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Several gradient‐echo fMRI blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) effects are
described in the literature: extravascular spin dephasing around capillaries and veins …

Diffusion‐weighted spin‐echo fMRI at 9.4 T: microvascular/tissue contribution to BOLD signal changes

SP Lee, AC Silva, K Ugurbil… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of vascular contribution to blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast
used in functional MRI (fMRI) is poorly understood. To investigate vascular contributions at …

Sources of phase changes in BOLD and CBV‐weighted fMRI

F Zhao, T Jin, P Wang, X Hu… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Phase changes in blood oxygenation‐level dependent (BOLD) fMRI have been observed in
humans; however, their exact origin has not yet been fully elucidated. To investigate this …