Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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.

Spis treści:
Part I. An Overview of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Section 1. Introduction to the Physiological Basis of Functional Neuroimaging
1. Neural activity and energy metabolism
2. Cerebral blood flow and brain activation
Section 2. Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
3. Nuclear magnetic resonance
4. Magnetic resonance imaging
5. Imaging functional activity
Part II. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Section 1. The Nature of the Magnetic Resonance Signal
6. Basic physics of magnetism and NMR
7. Relaxation and contrast in MRI
8. Diffusion and the MR signal
Section 2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
9. Mapping the MR signal
10. MRI techniques
11. Noise and artifacts in MR images
Part III. Principles of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Section 1. Perfusion Imaging
12. Contrast agent techniques
13. Arterial spin labeling techniques
Section 2. Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Imaging
14. The blood oxygenation level dependent effect
15. Design and analysis of BOLD experiments
16. Interpreting the BOLD response
Appendix. The physics of NMR.