GE Signa Pulse of MR - Spring 2012

CLINICAL POTENTIAL OF THERESTING BRAIN

by Suresh E. Joel, PhD, Lead Scientist, Diagnostics and Biomedical Technologies, GE Global Research

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive method
to measure brain activity through changes in blood oxygenation level.

Methodology

Seed based correlation
Independent component analysis
Spatially constrained clustering
Regional homogeneity analysis
Graph network analysis
Table 1.

Biomarker
Functional connectivity maps
Functional network maps
Functional brain parcels
Functional brain parcels
Brain connectivity as graph metrics

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