A Hitchhiker's guide to functional magnetic resonance imaging

JM Soares, R Magalhães, PS Moreira… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies have become increasingly popular
both with clinicians and researchers as they are capable of providing unique insights into …

Ultra-high field MRI: Advancing systems neuroscience towards mesoscopic human brain function

SO Dumoulin, A Fracasso, W van der Zwaag… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Human MRI scanners at ultra-high magnetic field strengths of 7 T and higher are
increasingly available to the neuroscience community. A key advantage brought by ultra …

The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension

SA Nastase, YF Liu, H Hillman, A Zadbood… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
The “Narratives” collection aggregates a variety of functional MRI datasets collected while
human subjects listened to naturalistic spoken stories. The current release includes 345 …

Functional organization of social perception and cognition in the superior temporal sulcus

B Deen, K Koldewyn, N Kanwisher, R Saxe - Cerebral cortex, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is considered a hub for social perception and cognition,
including the perception of faces and human motion, as well as understanding others' …

Intrinsic functional connectivity as a tool for human connectomics: theory, properties, and optimization

KRA Van Dijk, T Hedden… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Resting state functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI) is widely used to investigate brain networks
that exhibit correlated fluctuations. While fcMRI does not provide direct measurement of …

Lowering the thermal noise barrier in functional brain mapping with magnetic resonance imaging

L Vizioli, S Moeller, L Dowdle, M Akçakaya… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become an indispensable tool for
investigating the human brain. However, the inherently poor signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) of …

Three dimensional echo-planar imaging at 7 Tesla

BA Poser, PJ Koopmans, T Witzel, LL Wald, M Barth - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Functional MRI (fMRI) most commonly employs 2D echo-planar imaging (EPI). The
advantages for fMRI brought about by the increasingly popular ultra-high field strengths are …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of physiological noise correction on fMRI at 7 T

C Hutton, O Josephs, J Stadler, E Featherstone, A Reid… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Cognitive neuroimaging studies typically require fast whole brain image acquisition with
maximal sensitivity to small BOLD signal changes. To increase the sensitivity, higher field …

Physiological noise and signal-to-noise ratio in fMRI with multi-channel array coils

C Triantafyllou, JR Polimeni, LL Wald - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Sensitivity in BOLD fMRI is characterized by the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the time-series
(tSNR), which contains fluctuations from thermal and physiological noise sources. Alteration …

Effects of spatial smoothing on functional brain networks

T Alakörkkö, H Saarimäki, E Glerean… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Graph‐theoretical methods have rapidly become a standard tool in studies of the structure
and function of the human brain. Whereas the structural connectome can be fairly …