fMRI: From Nuclear Spins to Brain Functions

This volume explores the revolutionary fMRI field from basic principles to state-of-the-art research. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, including the history of fMRI's development using endogenous MR blood contrast, neurovascular coupling, pulse sequences for fMRI, quantitative fMRI; fMRI of the visual system, auditory cortex, and sensorimotor system; genetic imaging using fMRI, multimodal neuroimaging, brain bioenergetics and function and molecular-level fMRI. Comprehensive and intuitively structured, this book engages the reader with a first-person account of the development and history of the fMRI field by the authors. The subsequent sections examine the physiological basis of fMRI, the basic principles of fMRI and its applications and the latest advances of the technology, ending with a discussion of fMRI's future. fMRI: From Nuclear Spins to Brain Function, co-edited by leading and renowned fMRI researchers Kamil Ugurbil, Kamil Uludag and Lawrence Berliner, is an ideal resource for clinicians and researchers in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and MRI physics.

Explores a wide range of topics, covering the physical basics, physiological bases, a selection of various applications and cutting-edge advances in the field Ideal for a large niche audience, ranging from MRI physicists to neuroscientists and psychologists Co-edited by leading and eminent researchers in the fMRI field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1 From BOLD CONTRAST to IMAGING HUMAN BRAIN FUNCTION.-2 The Birth of Functional MRI at the Medical College of Wisconsin.-3 The road to fMRI using endogenous MR blood contrast.-4 Neurovascular Coupling.-5 Locally Measured Neuronal Correlates of functional MRI Signals.-6 Anatomical basis for functional specialization.-7 Pulse sequences for fMRI.-8 fMRI mechanisms.-9 Quantitative fMRI.-10 Quality Assurance in Functional MRI .-11 Analysis of Functional MRI Data.-12 Functional MRI of the visual system.-13 Functional MRI of the auditory cortex.-14 fMRI of the Sensorimotor System.-15 Functional MRI: Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience Applications.-16 Novel developments in cognitive fMRI .-17 Midbrain fMRI: Applications, limitations and challenges.-18 Clinical Applications of fMRI.-19 Animal Model Studies.-20 Information decoding from fMRI images.-21 Imaging Genetics with fMRI.-22 Combining fMRI with Other Modalities: Multimodal Neuroimaging.-23 High Resolution fMRI.-24 Field strength dependence of contrast and noise in fMRI.-25 Study of Brain Bioenergetics and Function using In Vivo MRS

-26 Contrast Agents for Molecular-Level fMRI

-27 The Future of Functional MRI.