Monte Carlo simulations have been used to analyze oxygenation-related signal changes in
pass-band balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) as well as in gradient echo (GE) …

Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy are versatile methods for probing brain
physiology, but their intrinsically low sensitivity limits the achievable spatial and temporal …

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 …

Blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
is one of the most used imaging techniques to map brain activity or to obtain clinical …

Purpose Relaxation and dephasing of water protons embedded in a vascular network is
driven by local magnetic field inhomogeneities around deoxygenated blood vessels. These …

Recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at ultra-high field (≥ 7
tesla), novel hardware, and data analysis methods have enabled detailed research on …

Purpose To assess the vessel size specificity and sensitivity of rapid CPMG and GRASE for
functional BOLD imaging for different echo train lengths, echo spacings, field strength, and …

ABSTRACT BOLD fMRI is a commonly used technique to map brain activity; nevertheless,
BOLD fMRI is an indirect measurement of brain function triggered by neurometabolic and …

A non-balanced (nb) SSFP-based fMRI method based on CE-FAST is presented to alleviate
some shortcomings of high spatial-specificity techniques commonly used in high static …

Purpose To investigate the intravascular contribution to the overall balanced SSFP (bSSFP)
BOLD effect in human blood at high to ultrahigh field strengths (3 T, 9.4 T, and 14.1 T) …