Introduction to functional magnetic resonance imaging : principles and techniques

✍ Scribed by Richard B Buxton

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 479
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become a standard tool for mapping the working brain's activation patterns, both in health and in disease. It is an interdisciplinary field and crosses the borders of neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, radiology, mathematics, physics and engineering. Developments in techniques, procedures and our understanding of this field are expanding rapidly. In this second edition of Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Richard Buxton - a leading authority on fMRI - provides an invaluable guide to how fMRI works, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology. He covers the relationship between fMRI and other imaging techniques and includes a guide to the statistical analysis of fMRI data. This book will be useful both to the experienced radiographer, and the clinician or researcher with no previous knowledge of the technology

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Overview of functional magnetic resonance imaging --
Introduction to the physiological basis of functional neuroimaging --
Neural activity and energy metabolism --
Cerebral blood flow and brain activation --
Introduction to functional magnetic resonance imaging --
Nuclear magnetic resonance --
Magnetic resonance imaging --
Imaging functional activity --
Principles of magnetic resonance imaging --
Nature of the magnetic resonance signal --
Basic physics of magnetism and NMR --
Relaxation and contrast in MRI --
Diffusion and the MR signal --
Magnetic resonance imaging --
Mapping the MR signal --
Techniques in MRI --
Noise and artifacts in MR images --
Principles of functional magnetic resonance imaging --
Perfusion imaging --
Contrast agent techniques --
Arterial spin labeling techniques --
Blood oxygenation level dependent imaging --
BOLD effect --
Design and analysis of BOLD experiments --
Interpreting the BOLD response.
Abstract:

This second edition is an invaluable guide to fMRI, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology. Read more...