Assessment of physiological noise modelling methods for functional imaging of the spinal cord.

Journal article

The spinal cord is the main pathway for information between the central and the peripheral nervous systems. Non-invasive functional MRI offers the possibility of studying spinal cord function and central sensitisation processes. However, imaging neural activity in the spinal cord is more difficult than in the brain. A significant challenge when dealing with such data is the influence of physiological noise (primarily cardiac and respiratory), and currently there is no standard approach to acc...

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Authors: Kong, Y; Jenkinson, M; Andersson, J; Tracey, I; Brooks, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: NeuroImage
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1538-1549
• Publication date: 2012-04-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.077
• EISSN: 1095-9572
• ISSN: 1053-8119
• Language: English
• Keywords: Young Adult; Models, Biological; Spinal Cord; Adult; Male; Female; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Humans; Artifacts